Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

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On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 12:04:22 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 07:29:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>> Thank you. I need to learn std.algorithm better.
>>
>> Don't we all. Part of the problem with std.algorithm is its 
>> power. It's
>> frequently the case that you think that something isn't there 
>> when it's
>> either there under a different name, or you just have to look 
>> at one of its
>> functions from a different angle to use it for what you're 
>> trying to do. It
>> wouldn't surprise me at all if folks who know it quite well 
>> get surprised by
>> what it can do at least from time to time.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> when this happens, it would be great if the person could post 
> to the group a few lines about it so someone (possibly someone 
> else) can collate into a future series on gems in phobos.  
> maybe give subject some consistent name so it is easy to find 
> them later.


I regularly review std.algorithm just because I'm not used to 
functional programming, it has so many useful things.