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New D language pumps up programmer productivity

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 74.85.3.97] on January 18, 2008 06:41 PM
"Why create a new programming language? Because C++ is complicated and expensive to implement. Most C++ programmers get accustomed to using certain feature sets and never touch any others, because it is too hard to remember them all. This is not a problem for the compiler, but for other programmers trying to read the code it can be, because they might be used to other feature sets. D avoids this problem, because it was hugely simplified without removing important features. But that is not the only benefit D has."

Let the above be a warning to all the people out there trying to add all kinds of language features to Java. If you keep doing that, eventually it will turn into C++.

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