Beginning with D

[Lutger]

Tim M wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:42:17 +1300, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> Rainer Deyke:
>>> My opinion: D 1.0 is, on the whole, worse than C++.
>>
>> There are many things in D1 better than C++, in particular you need less  
>> time learn the language and less time to write programs that work  
>> correctly.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> I think the key here is "on the whole" and in opinion. I'm not really  
> interested in D vs C++ one sided arguments but apart from the constness in  
> D2 what other features does C++ have over D?

The most prominent feature is value semantics for classes and better support 
for RAII style resource management compared to D1. Furthermore C++ allows 
you much more flexibility when it comes to operator overloading, but if that 
is a good thing is up for debate. And finally in C++ we have the 
preprocessor of course...

Other than that, I can't think of anything in the language itself. If you 
could argue that STL is part of the C++ language, than that counts too.

I don't see MI as a feature of C++ above D1, because everything you can 
reasonably do with MI can be done in D1 with interfaces and mixins.