[OT] Programming language WATs

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/07/2012 06:49 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> In D, however, I did not expect this stream/stdio divide to exist,
> though I suppose the name "std.stdio" is a kind of giveaway. In any
> case, std.stdio is used all over the place in D docs and tutorials,
> besides write/writeln() being a pet example motivating variadic
> templates, so it seems to hold the equivalent place to<iostream>  in
> C++. As such, I found it strange that this divide between streams and
> stdio files still persists in D. I would have thought that D should have
> integrated the two seamlessly into a single subsystem (or otherwise
> redesigned it in a more logical fashion), rather than perpetuating the
> schizophrenic divide inherited from C/C++.
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To be exact, your comparison is between Phobos/STL, not D/C++.