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[welkam]

On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 08:42:43 UTC, ShadoLight wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 19:25:43 UTC, welkam wrote:
>> On Thursday, 7 May 2020 at 09:18:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> Because D is a re-engineering of C++
>>
>> I thought it was re-engineering of C
>
> This opinion seems quite common in the D community, but I 
> frankly don't see it. If you are referring to the D subset 
> defined by the BetterC switch, well, maybe then I would agree. 
> But not for D in general.

At first this language was called Mars and it was simple. It was 
one man`s project. Walter fixed the flaws he saw in C but made 
sure that porting C to Mars was easy - copied code either 
compiled or threw an error.

Then Andrei came and he put all that metaprogramming, generics, 
introspection and more on top of the base that Walter built.

I dont think you can call D as re engineering of C++ when it was 
one person project. But historical accuracy is not why I raised 
that question. I remember there was a post by a C++ programmer 
that came to this mailing list saying that a year ago he  tried D 
because he was told that its similar to C++ but without all the 
cruft or something like that. I dont remember exactly. Because D 
does not behave like C++ that programmer didnt like the language. 
One year later he tried D again but this time he came to D from 
the point of it being like C but with its flaws fixed and stuff 
added to that core. Then he liked the language. The language 
didnt change but his enjoyment changed when he changed his 
expectations.