Is D more cryptic than C++?

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On 11/30/2011 03:36 AM, Abrahm wrote:
> "Adam Wilson"<flyboynw at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:op.v5q2zgji707hn8 at invictus.skynet.com...
>>
>> In my experience D is roughly analogous to C# in terms of crypticness
>> and  readability, I am here doing long-term evaluations of D as a
>> replacement  for C# on my employers projects as we may face power
>> constraints in the  future that preclude the use of a JIT'ed language.
>> So far, I like what  I've seen.
>
> But I thought that C# could be precompiled in some fashion? In either
> case, going from C# to D seems like a major move. Not so much the move
> but a too broadly defined application that it could actually be a good
> fit with both languages.
>

A while back I built a tool to do automatic translation of C# to D1. 
Aside from a small number of language features, a large number of 
libraries and a significant amount of freedom w.r.t. formatting, the 
darn thing worked! (Debugging it was "fun", as in running diffs of 
million+ line execution traces. But then I'm crazy enough to do that!) 
Up shot is that for some applications, those languages aren't really 
that different.