Lisp vs. C++ (not off-topic)

[James Dunne]

clayasaurus wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> I believe that D has a definite opportunity to do better than C++ in 
>>> code clarity and ease of programming, but I'm not sure the library is 
>>> sufficient quiet yet.  The C++ algorithm/iterator model is extremely 
>>> powerful and D's foreach and delegates aren't enough by themselves.  
>>> For example, writing the code snippet above in D would be much more 
>>> like the original C++ version than my rewrite.  For D to be great, I 
>>> think it will need an standard algorithm-oriented library that 
>>> exploits D's unique language features.  DTL seemed a likely 
>>> candidate, but development on it stalled ages ago.  But perhaps it 
>>> contains ideas worth pursuing.  I'll admit it's been so long that 
>>> I've forgotten a lot of the details of how it works.
>>
>> D just needs a foreach_reverse statement.
> 
> old thread on the subject: 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/17320.html

Thanks Clay.  I was about to post an "I told you so..." post, but you 
saved us all from that fate.

Wait...

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James Dunne