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[Walter Bright]

Herb Sutter wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> well pretty much what D does :o).
>> I predict that C++ will adopt a lot more of D stuff.
> 
> FWIW, I (we?) had no idea that D did those things, so call it
> parallel intelligent design rather than adoption. :-) Seriously, one
> of these days I'm actually going to have to look more than briefly at
> D.

Hi Herb! It's hard to find anything truly original in language design, 
somebody somewhere always did something sorta like it first somewhere 
else. Most of D's features are inspired by features from a long list of 
languages, some alive, some dead.

It's like I read somewhere that nobody writes original music. It's all 
bits and pieces of other music in the brain of the composer that he 
heard somewhere else and just forgot where.

The magic is in the selection of which bits to include, and how they all 
fit together.

Here's a comparison I did of C++0x proposed features and D a while back. 
It's out of date and incomplete, but it's a reasonable overview:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/cpp0x.html

I suppose I need to revisit it now that C++0x is nearing completion.