D - more or less power than C++?

[Knud Sørensen]

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:03:34 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> I started a new thread for this:
> 
> "Mike Capp" <mike.capp at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:dua67i$12cr$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> 7. D has all (well, most of) the power of C++
> 
> I see this often and am a bit perplexed by it. What power do you feel is 
> missing?
> 
> And what about the missing power in C++ - inline assembler, nested 
> functions, contract programming, unit testing, automatic documentation 
> generation, static if, delegates, dynamic closures, inner classes, modules, 
> garbage collection, scope guard?
> 
> What does D have to do to have more power than C++?

Well I think that D already have more programing power than C++.

What D need is more street respect ;-)

I think that most programmers won't switch to D before it 
have a magnitude more power than C++.

To get there I think you should just look at the top 
of the wish list at
http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/story.php  

it says

84  array initialization/literals
  This feature witch everybody miss in C++ and D.  
56  Reflection API
  Many are missing this from Java
53  vectorization
  This will give D more calculating power than C++ and FORTRAN
50  Stack tracing
  There is a unofficial patch make it official
46  Faster GC 
  The judgement by the people ;-)
43  Short syntax for new
  The typing length to create a new object is one of the very ignoring
  things when coming from C++.