"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 14:09:25 Walter Bright wrote: >>> Trass3r wrote: >>> > But once you had a test drive, you just can't get out anymore. >>> >>> I've had more than one longtime C++ expert tell me that after using D >>> for a >>> while, then for work reasons get forced back into C++, just find >>> themselves >>> cringing every time they edit it. >> >> LOL. Yeah. There's just so many little things that D improves on that >> when >> you're stuck in C++ land, you're constantly running into little things >> that you >> miss having or are annoyed to have to deal with. auto has probably been >> the >> biggest one for me, though slicing isn't far behind. At least auto will >> be in >> C++ 0x... >> > > For me, D's killer features were string handling (slicing, > appending/concatenation, ***and .length instead of null-termination***) > and *no header files*. (No more header files!! Yay!!!). But auto is > fantastic too though, I get sooo much use out of that. > >
Fixed. ^^^
