[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/18/2014 10:42 AM, logicchains wrote:
> I think it makes more sense to attribute the effectiveness of D's
> generics implementation to Walter's extensive experience implementing
> generics than to attribute it to generics being easy to implement well.
> If generics are easy to implement, then why isn't there another language
> with the compile-time power of D that's not a monster like C++ or a Lisp?

It's the 'compile-time power of D' that is not 'easy to implement' 
(there is not (yet) one D compiler in existence that actually can handle 
all of it in a reasonable way), not 'generics' (whatever that means 
exactly).