D Development Paradigm

Craig Black cblack at ara.com
Fri Nov 30 10:53:39 PST 2007


> Given how often people ask for new features and given how often the new 
> features
> asked for are dumb, either not thought through or based on a lack of 
> knowledge of the
> language you can hardly blame a language designer for wanting to play 
> devil's advocate
> even for features they like. Not to mention the time it takes to implement 
> them. I had
> the impression templates were always on the cards but are a complex 
> feature.

True.  Walter originally didn't like templates because he hated STL.  I 
suggested he look at Modern C++ Design to get another persepective.  Of 
course, this was long before Alexandrescu got involved in D.

-Craig 





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