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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