Phango - questions

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Don Clugston wrote:
>> This isn't a criticism in any way (as an expat, I spend most of my life
>> feeling foreign!), just an observation. Most of the unfavourable
>> comments about the Tango style seem to be coming from C++ programmers,
>> and I think it's related to what they (we) are used to.
> 
> I think you've touched on a larger issue. Languages tend to have a look
> and feel, and if a programmer doesn't like a particular language,
> they'll tend to associate those bad feelings with that look and feel.
> 
> For example, in the 80's, the big divide was the C camp and the Pascal
> camp. The two groups were distinct, and they argued with each other a
> lot about which was better. Each had a distinct look and feel to their
> language (and their respective derivative languages).
> 
> I don't like Pascal. I've deliberately resisted imbuing D with elements
> that resemble Pascal's look and feel, not only because of my own
> preference, but because I know that the C camp does not like Pascal and
> if D adopts a Pascal look, they will be turned off from D. D is
> deliberately designed so that C/C++ users will quickly feel at home with
> it.

And I have to say again - the C++ libraries I have used all make me more
comfortable with Tango's style than Phobos' style. And they are darn
popular C++ libraries too.

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