Discussion about D at a C++ forum

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 9 10:15:37 PST 2012


On 1/9/2012 7:31 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> "note that D removes probably the most important feature of C++ that makes C++
> so powerful: templates and replaces it with something even weaker than Java
> generics"
>
> I had to read that sentence over again. Did he say "D"? Oh well... talking about
> misperceptions.

Also, he talks about D debuting in 1999. At the end of 1999, I decided to start 
working on it. A working compiler didn't appear until 2003 or so, though that 
was very primitive compared with what we have now.


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