On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 20:16:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 15:41:42 UTC, Edward Diener
wrote:
the arrogance by which D was initially and repeatedly compared
against C/C++ has been totally out of place since the C++ is a
very good language and the effort made to denigrate it with
specious and ridiculously false arguments about it vis-a-vis D
as a programming language has almost irreparably hurt D as a
serious programming language irrespective of its actual
abilities or weaknesses. You are not going to appeal to the
really intelligent programmers out there if you are not honest
and rigorous in discussion of your own programming language in
relation to others. All that you end up doing is to alienate
anyone with real programming intelligence by the tactics that
D has taken over the years with such comparisons.
I never understood how people can get their feelings hurt when
criticising the language they program in. Either the criticised
point is true and one accepts it or not, in that case a factual
refutation can be done. Feeling offended is ridiculous.
4) As a C++ programmer largely interested in C++ template
programming, C++ concepts etc., and potential
compile-time/run-time introspection, I have never found a
compelling reason to use D rather than C++.
This is a good example of why C++ programmers will never move
to D. They are quite happy with the language. They want a
better C++, and that's C++14, C++17, etc., not D.
Yeah, it's also known as Stockholm Syndrome :-)
