On the richness of C++

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from Don Clugston (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
> Edward Diener Wrote:
> >
> > OK. Hopefully it will about D enough for me to pick up the particulars
> > better than I have been able to do from the specification.
> My opinion (as the technical reviewer of the book) was that the template section discussed things from a C++ mindset, which is probably
helpful for a C++ programmer; yet it gives less detail on the interesting unique-to-D stuff which renders many C++ techniques obsolete.

Yup.  That was a somewhat contentious decision on my part.  Since C++ is the only other
language with templates I wanted to be sure the reader understood templates in general
with the hope that it would provide a good base to build on.  As a result, because of the
length limitation of the book, the chapter doesn't talk too much about some of the newer
or more advanced features that D offers such as tuples.

Regarding "Tango with D" in general though... very little of the book is Tango-specific.  We
made a deliberate effort to make the language our primary focus.


Sean