Yes i meant C++ actually, but you can include here every other language
because the point is not having templates, having it in a powerful
environment.
For a language it shouldn't be that hard to have a generic syntax (lets
call it templates in here) much better than D, but if you sacrifice the
power of C just to have it, that wouldn't be a fair deal would it? :)
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:37:22 +0300, retard <[email protected]> wrote:
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:57:10 +0300, so wrote:
IMHO one should not try to find a PL that is easy, what a programmer
needs is a language that makes things easier. If you dive into high
performance/flexible/efficient/platform specific... coding nothing will
be easy anyway.
What makes a language easy/hard is mostly the crucial things it can do,
just think about C, it has a syntax not hard to learn and keywords not
that many, but not many people i know can say C is easier than others.
D does a great job on templates and makes them so easy, wouldn't even
compare to other languages with template support.
Other languages with template support? That is C++ ? Obj-C++ ?
Wikipedia mentions:
"Template metaprogramming is a metaprogramming technique in which
templates are used by a compiler to generate temporary source code, which
is merged by the compiler with the rest of the source code and then
compiled. The output of these templates include compile-time constants,
data structures, and complete functions.
The use of templates can be thought of as compile-time execution. The
technique is used by a number of languages, the best-known being C++, but
also Curl, D, Eiffel, Haskell, ML and XL."
Eiffer, Haskell, and ML definitely don't have templates. Template Haskell
supports a different kind of TMP, though.
So the templates in D are better than in C++, Curl, and XL? I have zero
experience with those two other languages, so it's hard to say.
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