Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 19:22:29 UTC 2018


On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 14:49:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, February 09, 2018 14:01:02 Atila Neves via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 
>> 10 programmers who have never written one and don't know 
>> anyone else who has. I have; I failed.
>
> The amazing thing is when a programmer tries to argue that 
> having unit tests makes your code worse - not that they take 
> too long to write or that they don't want to bother with them 
> or any that - that they somehow make the code worse.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Actually, it can make lazy programmers write worse code if they 
write code to satisfy the tests instead of writing code according 
to the spec...



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