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[Tony]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:gg4tbk$ne9$1 at digitalmars.com...
> == Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
>> D is a fringe language, and it's not an easy one (system language and all 
>> that),
> so there's never shortage of unusual people in this newsgroup :-)
>> Java groups are so boooring compared to this one :-)
>> Bear hugs,
>> bearophile
>
> Do people seriously consider D a "difficult" language?  Given that it has 
> garbage
> collection out of the box, builtin arrays, etc. I would have guessed that 
> most
> people only consider it to be of moderate difficulty.  Yes, you *can* do
> down-and-dirty programming with pointers, manual memory management, etc. 
> in it,
> but you don't *have to* unless the nature of your problem domain would 
> require it
> no matter what the language.

So I have heard: that one can drop the GC and program correctly (hehe). But 
if that's one's preferred style, that kinda means C++ is the tool of choice, 
huh? (Not to belabor the point though).

Tony