[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Asman01]

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 03:59:15 UTC, logicchains wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 20:29:04 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of 
>> time trying to make my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience 
>> has enabled me to design D so it is fundamentally fast to 
>> compile, and enabled me to pick an internal design for the 
>> compiler that I know will be fast.
>
> Isn't this kind of the point? The Go devs don't have the 
> somewhat unique experience of having written a C++ compiler 
> from scratch to guide them in implementing generics in Go, so 
> it doesn't make practical sense to say "D has fast-compiling 
> generics, so why can't Go?". Just because a good generics 
> system is theoretically possible, doesn't mean it's easy to 
> design. Personally, I think comparing C++ to C shows that no 
> generics is better than poorly designed generics (C++ 
> templates).

I don't think so. Did you know that some of they are the same 
guys from Bell Labs which created C, UNIX, Plan9, UTF8 etc?