D - more or less power than C++?

[Hasan Aljudy]

Walter Bright wrote:
> "Def" <Def_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
> news:duct3u$atg$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
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>>In article <duab09$1arn$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>>>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. ;-)
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> 
> 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.
> 
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>>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.
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> The documentation certainly could be better. 
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> 

It took me a while to figure out how to code simple programs in D ..
Learning D isn't hard at all when you have C++/Java background, but 
finding good D tutorials is!