Nim Nuggets: Nim talk at Strange Loop 2021

[Walter Bright]

On 10/17/2021 4:04 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Maybe you should have read more SIGPLAN papers then, there are several examples 
> of those capabilities.

It seems strange that for something so widely known, it never came up in any 
enhancement requests for major languages like C, C++, Pascal, etc.

Instead, when people discovered that C++ templates formed a turing-complete 
programming language to do computations at compile time, and would write about 
what a great new capability that was!

(I also recall a C++ Committee person pooh-pooing D's CTFE, and showing how it 
could be done with C++ templates, at least until the compiler ran out of memory, 
which it did for non-trivial computations. It could do string manipulation, as 
long as the string wasn't longer than 8 characters.)