OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Steve Horne]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:35:03 -0800, Walter Bright
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:

>The reason for this is not so obvious. It isn't "random" with a 1/2^32 
>probability, that integers (and other types) contain random values with 
>an even distribution. They don't. The overwhelming majority of ints have 
>values that are between -100 and +100. The most common value is 0. Those 
>values are nowhere near where the gc pools are located.

It's also worth bearing in mind that most random-looking data doesn't
hang around in current objects too long. For example, if you're doing
encryption or compression, you're probably streaming that data in/out
of a file or socket or whatever.

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