Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 00:08:31 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> Needing a min(), say for strings, ints and floats in a program 
> one shouldn't end up with 3 times code but with code dealing 
> with e.g. "any scalar" or even "anything comparable".

No matter how you cut it, you have to pay for dealing with 
different types in one function. Either by code-bloat or 
indirection. The asm for ints, floats, reals etc. are all 
different and require different code.

See here: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.213.1376962388.1719.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com