Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 12/06/2013 02:52 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 > On 12/6/2013 2:40 PM, bearophile wrote:
 >> I think in your list you have missed the point 8, that is templates
 >> allow for
 >> data specialization, or for specialization based on compile-time values.
 >>
 >> The common example of the first is the C sort() function compared to
 >> the type
 >> specialized one.
 >
 > That's a good example.

Bjarne Stroustrup has the article "Learning Standard C++ as a New 
Language" where he demonstrates bearophile's point, as well as how C++ 
is a better language than C for novices:

   http://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf

Ali