D: pay for what you use?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 13.02.2014 19:06, schrieb bearophile:
> Rel:
>
>> It would be great if D would have the same "pay for what you use" way,
>> as C/C++ do.
>
> While D is nearly a system language, its design doesn't follow that C++
> rule fully. In some cases paying a little is OK for D, if it makes lot
> of other code safer, shorter, nicer, etc.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I agree, I rather pay a little more like in Modula-2 and Ada, than have 
what C++ has become.

It is always a mess to link in third party libraries if they have 
decided to pay for a different set of things one is willing to pay for.

And to be honest, even when I used to do systems level programming back 
in MS-DOS days and my early UNIX days, I never felt the need for such 
approach.

I think it was a design decision to bring to C++, the C developers that 
use it as a portable macro assembler.

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Paulo