Overloading/Inheritance issue

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sun Aug 5 11:06:10 PDT 2007


Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> I think optimizing your language for vi and the printer is a dead-end. 
> The vast majority of the time a developer is going to be working on his 
> code on a computer using some tool.  If a tool lets you make use of a 
> big productivity feature, then it makes sense to use it and officially 
> endorse it as a basic requirement of the language.  Even vi users use 
> tools like grep and ctags.

Everyone uses different tools, and particular tools may not be available 
  on all platforms D is on.

FWIW, a lot of hard core programmers still use vi.



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