Is D more cryptic than C++?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/01/2011 06:34 AM, bcs wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 08:47 PM, Abrahm wrote:
>> "bcs"<bcs at example.com> wrote in message
>>> A while back I built a tool to do automatic translation of C# to D1.
>>
>> Oh, so you prefer the easy tasks then! Noted. (Embedded sarcasm defined:
>> Try going from D to C#! A very much harder, end of the chapter
>> excercise).
>
> The direction was not by choice, we had a C# code base a need to run on
> Linux and a good reason to not us Mono.
>

Nice! =D. How well does the resulting C#-style D code perform?

>>
>>> Aside from a small number of language features, a large number of
>>> libraries and a significant amount of freedom w.r.t. formatting, the
>>> darn thing worked!
>>
>> Well, don't make it out to be an accomplishment of the "harder"
>> end-of-chapter excercises when it is actually in the easy section.
>>
>
> I never claimed that it was complex! In fact I, my point is better
> supported by it being simple.
>
>>> (Debugging it was "fun", as in running diffs of million+ line execution
>>> traces. But then I'm crazy enough to do that!)
>>
>> Your need for "praise" and whatever, noted. I can't help you with that
>> (not that I don't want to or that your need isn't an indicator of
>> something wrong).
>
> I'm not bragging, Even if I was, the only thing I could brag about there
> would be bull-headedness. It would sort of be like you bragging about
> how hard it is to find adjective that describe you that are usable in
> polite company.
>
>>
>>> Up shot is that for some applications, those languages aren't really
>>> that different.
>>
>> That's really good. You're well on your way to completing the coursework.
>> Gold star. Keep up the good work.
>
> You *really* have zero idea what my point is don't you?

I think he might actually get your point. Don't feed the troll ;).