Bartosz Milewski seems to like D more than C++ now :)

[Szymon Gatner]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 08:59:44 UTC, Peter Alexander 
wrote:
> On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 02:24:31 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> At Going Native 2013 there was a very good talk that among 
>> other things suggests to avoid raw loops in C++ code. But 
>> while this is good advice (so much that raw loops are becoming 
>> a bit of code smell for me), there are several situations 
>> where imperative loops keep being better for me. Explicit 
>> recursion is not always more readable and more easy to 
>> understand than imperative foreach loops.
>
> I don't think his advice is to use recursion instead of loops. 
> I believe the point was that raw loops can usually be replaced 
> by something more generic (e.g. std::find, std::rotate, 
> std::transform, etc.). The loop is just an implementation 
> detail of a more high-level algorithm. Within those algorithms, 
> it's ok to use loops.

If only std algorithms took containers (by that I mean things 
that container for accepts too) as arguments (and not 
iterators)... even in the form of new functions like foreach_all, 
transform_all etc.