[Issue 14644] Wikipedia page on Generic Programming should have a section on D

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14644

dennis.m.ritchie at mail.ru changed:

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--- Comment #5 from dennis.m.ritchie at mail.ru ---
(In reply to bb.temp from comment #4)
> Deletion in History, look for:
> 
>  20:35, 16 August 2011‎ Peter.alexander.au
> 
> "Removed the 'Templates in D' section entirely as it had nothing to do with
> generic programming. What does compile time factorial and C API wrappers
> have to do with generic programming? Templates and generic programming are
> not synonyms."
> 
> The rationale for deletion is actually here:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Generic_programming#D
> 
> At the end:
> 
> "Does there have to be an exclamation point in factorial!(n-1)?"
> 
> I think that this should be considered otherwise any other author might see
> its paragraph on D deleted. The point is that the guy didn't get the
> exclamation mark is used to instantiate a template.

They want to see something new in generic programming, so show them the code
generation mixins. If C++-programmers indicate "power" of its backward
preprocessor: #define max(a, b) ((a) < (b) ? (b) : (a)), then why D-programmers
can not describe the usefulness of mixins in generic programming.
Besides knocking the `static if` absolutely groundless.

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