Overloading/Inheritance issue

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

I use emacs at work.  Sun Studio (the obvious alternative) is too slow 
and I don't care about any of the features it offers over a plain text 
editor combined with command-line tools (grep, etc).


Sean