On Dec 8, 09 19:11, retard wrote:
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:08:43 +0900, Mike Parker wrote:
retard wrote:
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:06:14 -0500, Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
What will removing it gain you?
Sancta simplicitas.
Hm.. I don't really buy that argument.
I see you and Walter removing/witholding things (incomparability
operators, logical operator overloading) from the language, because:
"I can't imagine a use for it and removing it makes the language
simpler."
Meanwhile, you're keeping C syntax for function-pointers around, and
I'm missing syntactic sugar for my tribool.
You probably don't want to anger millions of users coming from the C
community, do you?
While we're at it, lets avoid angering the millions of users coming from
the Java community. And the Python community. And the PHP community. And
the...
That's just silly. D has its C roots. Python and PHP are rivaling amateur
languages. A scripting language user wouldn't use D, but all C users
should switch to D because the execution model is similar and C is
basically a subset of D.
All C users should switch to D when D can be used without the GC with
little effort.
