Why don't other programming languages have ranges?

[Peter Alexander]

On 25/07/10 12:11 PM, levenshtein wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
>> Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> It sounds like the D PL has invented the range idiom unlike any other PL.
>>
>> Pointer programming is deeply embedded into the C++ culture, and iterators segue
>> nicely into that culture. For D, however, programming revolves around arrays,
>> and ranges fit naturally into that.
>>
>> It'll take years, but I'll be very surprised if ranges don't filter into many
>> major languages, as well as other ideas that D has proven to be solid.
>
> At least the C++ fellows already stole your 'auto' type inference and the new template functionality. C# stole your delegate system. They even use the same terms. The world dominance already started.

Not to belittle D, but type inference was around long before D came on 
the scene, and I don't think they got the use of the auto keyword from D 
(auto was already an (essentially unused) keyword in C++).