LinkedIn Article to be: Why you need to start moving off C/C++ to D, now.

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 09:32 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Also, if the trend in C++ is to go back to functional programming 
> (don't use classes, inheritance etc.), then what's the point? Why 
> not use C instead. It's kinda absurd.

C cannot do RAII, nor can it do internal DSL (via symbol in expression
definitions). And neither C nor C++ can do functional programming due to
the lack of tail call optimization.

Anyone reverting to C for new applications is either working on an
embedded system with very, very limited resources, or they are
revisionists ;-)

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