Is D still alive?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
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>> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 14:09:25 Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Trass3r wrote:
>>> > But once you had a test drive, you just can't get out anymore.
>>>
>>> I've had more than one longtime C++ expert tell me that after using D 
>>> for a
>>> while, then for work reasons get forced back into C++, just find 
>>> themselves
>>> cringing every time they edit it.
>>
>> LOL. Yeah. There's just so many little things that D improves on that 
>> when
>> you're stuck in C++ land, you're constantly running into little things 
>> that you
>> miss having or are annoyed to have to deal with. auto has probably been 
>> the
>> biggest one for me, though slicing isn't far behind. At least auto will 
>> be in
>> C++ 0x...
>>
>
> For me, D's killer features were string handling (slicing, 
> appending/concatenation, ***and .length instead of null-termination***)
> and *no header files*. (No more header files!! Yay!!!). But auto is 
> fantastic too though, I get sooo much use out of that.
>
>

Fixed. ^^^