Why Strings as Classes?

[Christopher Wright]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Nick,
> 
>> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message
>> news:g8vmda$sd4$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> BCS:
>>>
>>>> If you must have that sort of interface, pick a different language,
>>>> because D isn't intended to work that way.
>>>>
>>> I suggest Benji to try C# 3+, despite all the problems it has and the
>>> borg-like nature of such software, etc, it will be used way more than
>>> D, and it has all the nice things Benji asks for.
>>>
>> (pet peeve) As much as there is that I like about C#, the lack of an
>> IArithmetic or operator constrains tends to gimp its template system
>> in a number of cases.
>>
> 
> C# generics are *Crippled*. They more or less do nothing but map types 
> around.

Yes, but oh, the syntax!