LinkedIn Article to be: Why you need to start moving off C/C++ to D, now.

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/16/2014 01:22 PM, Remo wrote:
> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 23:43:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:22:53PM +0000, John Carter via
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Any other good blog posts / social media comments / pointers I can
>>> digest and use?
>>
>> This one came to mind:
>>
>> http://bartoszmilewski.com/2013/09/19/edward-chands/
>>
>
> This is pretty bad promotion for Haskell.
> The Author of this post apparently do not know C++ well enough
> or just ignore this knowledge.

That would be somewhat curious.
http://www.amazon.com/In-Action-Industrial-Programming-Techniques/dp/0201699486

In any case, personal attacks are irrelevant and do not belong here. 
There are less intrusive ways of formulating this thought.

> Me as a C++ developer who likes Haskell (and D) after reading this I
> like C++ a bit more and Haskell a bit less.
> ...

You are entitled to your opinion, but I'll still point out that taking 
disagreement with some piece of writing as evidence for the (assumed!) 
contrary is not a valid way of building a well-reasoned one.

>> It’s a common but false belief that reference counting (using shared
>> pointers in particular) is better than garbage collection.
>
> And then he pointed to a "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection" paper
> where "reference counting" as a strategy (method) for a Garbage
> Collection will be disused.
> This is NOT the same as std::shared_ptr do !
> ...

This seems a little bit superficial; what would be a _rebuttal_ of his 
fundamental point?