D - more or less power than C++?

[Walter Bright]

"Def" <Def_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <duab09$1arn$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>
>>I see this often and am a bit perplexed by it. What power do you feel is
>>missing?
>
> Maybe you're simply looking at the wrong place. It might not be the 
> language
> itself - maybe D is missing a really good and comprehensive tutorial. 
> Imagine
> the C++ crowd that wants to migrate to D, and how they struggle to figure 
> out
> "the D way to do things". And then, when nothings works as expected, they 
> tend
> to say "if D only had [some C++ feature]". Not everyone has fun learning 
> by
> searching the web. ;-)

It is my impression that C++ people who find D lacking are trying to compile 
essentially C++ code in D, instead of looking at D on its own merits.

> So with a good D tutorial and documentation that has been written with D 
> in mind
> from the beginning, D might seem as powerful as it actually is to the 
> people who
> are new to D.

The documentation certainly could be better.