On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 03:59:15 UTC, logicchains wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 20:29:04 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of
time trying to make my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience
has enabled me to design D so it is fundamentally fast to
compile, and enabled me to pick an internal design for the
compiler that I know will be fast.
Isn't this kind of the point? The Go devs don't have the
somewhat unique experience of having written a C++ compiler
from scratch to guide them in implementing generics in Go, so
it doesn't make practical sense to say "D has fast-compiling
generics, so why can't Go?". Just because a good generics
system is theoretically possible, doesn't mean it's easy to
design. Personally, I think comparing C++ to C shows that no
generics is better than poorly designed generics (C++
templates).
I don't think so. Did you know that some of they are the same
guys from Bell Labs which created C, UNIX, Plan9, UTF8 etc?
