C and memory safety comments by me

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 May 2017 at 14:18:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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> (e.g. slicing dynamic arrays and nested functions both exist in 
> D, because Walter saw them in other langauges and liked them),

The first languages I learned all had array slicing built-in 
(Matlab/R/Python).

You wouldn't believe the litany of functions that are required in 
Armadillo to try to get the same functionality in C++ that comes 
so naturally in those languages.