Design Patterns == weakness in language

[David Medlock]

Brad Anderson wrote:

> This might be a bit OT, but I often wonder if D is going to succeed C/C++/Java
> long-term given that it's not abstracting away a majority of known design
> patterns.  Or, maybe that's just D 2.0 and we need to be patient.  <g>
> 
> http://newbabe.pobox.com/~mjd/blog/2006/09/11/#design-patterns
> 
> BA
Adding to Steve's lengthy post, I will say the anonymous delegates and 
the lazy eval stuff is way cool and will take some time to flesh out 
common idioms. (Not to mention the template magic tossed about around here).

So far I haven't missed C++ at all.

-DavidM