On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 06:06:59PM +0000, Eric Niebler via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 06:15:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] > >Anyhow, it's best for us all to focus on doing good work instead of > >pettily fighting for irrelevant credit. > > I only jumped in when I saw some disparagement of C++ and my work > which (IMO) was both petty and wrong. I would very much like to drop > this and get back to productive work. [...]
Eric, if I came across as disparaging your work, I apologize, as that was never my intention. As the author of the article that you used as the basis for your presentation, I am very honored to have you acknowledge my work in the C++ community. My comment about C++ playing catchup wasn't intended to be petty disparagement either, it's a reflection of my consideration that C++ has been heading in the wrong direction (IMO), and only now is "turning the ship", so to speak, toward where other languages have already gone ahead. I'm a C++ programmer myself, and for many years have faced many problems and issues that arose from certain design decisions in C++. After discovering D and realizing that I don't *need* to deal with such issues after all, because D made different design decisions, only to learn later on that C++ is now also trying to head in the same directions, it's a bit hard not to perceive C++ as playing catch-up. T -- Gone Chopin. Bach in a minuet.
