On the richness of C++

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> Edward Diener wrote:
> 
>> D has some really nice features but it really needs much better language
>> documentation to attract programmers, especially C++ programmers.
> 
> Hah, I think the same thing every time I'm forced to try to use a boost
> library.  :-)   Like just today when I had to go look at Boost::MPL to
> see what it was all about.
> 
>> In other words it seems as if D should be able to do some of the Boost
>> libraries, which makes C++ so pleasurable to use in general despite the
>> difficulty of dealing with C++ templates, fairly easily. At the same
>> time most of the Boost libraries are tremendously useful. I will look in
>> the Phobos library for their equivalents to see if D has some of the
>> same abilities in its library.
> 
> The book with the misleading title is about Tango, actually.

"Learn to Tango with D" is definately more about D than about Tango.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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