Go Programming talk [OT] - C is simple enough!???

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> He seems to particularly dislike function overloading which is not only part 
> of D but pretty integral to object-oriented programming in general, so my 
> guess is that he wouldn't be all that enthused with any object-oriented 
> language. At minimium, it would have to give him something that he thought 
> was definitely worth the extra cost of dealing with function overloading. 
> While D certainly improves greatly on C++ (including in how it deals with 
> function overloading), it's close enough to C++ that I suspect that he 
> wouldn't like it either. But of course, he'd have to actually look at D and 
> then tell us what he thought for us to know for sure.


I don't expect him to switch to anything. When you've built up such a store in 
one language, it would take an incredible push to change.

Nevertheless, D has some features, such as transitive immutability and purity, 
scope guard and memory safety, which are a nice fit for his style of programming.

What would be more likely is D features moving into C.