D vs Go in real life

Chris Cain clcain at uncg.edu
Fri Nov 29 07:21:25 PST 2013


On Friday, 29 November 2013 at 12:06:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
> [1] Raises the question whether we've been conditioned by C or 
> whether C was intuitive.

I'll answer for you: C was very counter intuitive which is why no 
one has done exactly what it did since. Look up the spiral rule 
for reading types in C. Most often it can be thought of being 
read from right to left, but that's not the actual reading.

http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

D fixes this massive issue to a certain degree, but it still 
feels backwards to me, despite me having been raised with "types 
on the left of the name". After using a language doing it "the 
right way" for awhile, you quickly adapt and realize it makes the 
most sense.

At least, that's the way that I feel.


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