D - more power than (really) needed !
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 6 04:16:45 PST 2006
bls wrote:
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> Templates nice to have, but nessesary ? No. Let me quote Betrand Meyer.
> ~~~ "Inheritance is more powerfull than using templates"
Having both must be even more powerful then.
> Yes, I know Eiffel supports templates but the point is that everything
> can also be done using inheritance. And heh, we have GC.
Would you care to supply an example?
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> The Oberon Language spec. has 18 pages is extremly simple and
> enables you to create an combined code/text/graphic editor, using
> inheritance and a good choice of patterns, which has much more power
> than let's say Scintilla.
> So I wonder how can this be done with such a simple language, and
> what does it mean for D? D more power than REALLY needed!
<snip>
There are Turing-complete languages that are even simpler than this.
Stewart.
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