A reason to choose D over Go

[Tobias Müller via Digitalmars-d]

"weaselcat" <weaselcat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 01:24:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 23:49:26 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>>> I actually think that there are two large categories of
>>> programmers: those like writing the same loops over and over
>>> again and those who use algorithms.
>> 
>> I agree, at some point I learned that there is a huge cultural >
>> distinction between C and C++ programmers.
> 
> yes, the other main distinction are the people who correctly put the *
> next to the type because it's part of the type, or the wrong people who
> put it next to the variable name because they're heathens

One could argue that in the declaration:
int *a;
the type of *a is int.
So it's not a pointer type but a dereference operator.

That actually similar to how patterns work in modern programming languages.

Tobi