On Monday, January 09, 2012 10:15:37 Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/9/2012 7:31 AM, Marco Leise wrote: > > "note that D removes probably the most important feature of C++ that > > makes C++ so powerful: templates and replaces it with something even > > weaker than Java generics" > > > > I had to read that sentence over again. Did he say "D"? Oh well... > > talking about misperceptions. > > Also, he talks about D debuting in 1999. At the end of 1999, I decided to > start working on it. A working compiler didn't appear until 2003 or so, > though that was very primitive compared with what we have now.
I suspect that part of the problem is that Wikipedia lists D as appearing in 1999. And, of course, since D2 didn't start until 2007, saying that D has been around since 1999 easily gives the mistaken impression that we're doing a bad job, since D _still_ isn't complete and fully stable. - Jonathan M Davis
