Beginning with D

[Jason House]

Lutger Wrote:

> 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 

I don't agree with this one. Classes and structs are identical in C++ (except for default protection). In D, they differ. For value semantics, use structs in D. 

> 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. 
> 
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