Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:49:56 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> To: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New BSD licensed debugger Message-ID: <53AE4E9C-733C-41F6-9F0D-9DBD80D01089@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <4A98DD97.1050505@prgmr.com> References: <8819E53E-9F96-43E2-B7F5-F5393F5AE126@rabson.org> <fee671620908281334w47139f6dg773a10449dee3fc3@mail.gmail.com> <1F28170B-BA01-4988-8BB8-9875B9D00DD5@rabson.org> <4A9859CA.9080606@elischer.org> <D690363C-07B8-4B00-AB55-5C7DA2F1E965@rabson.org> <4A98DD97.1050505@prgmr.com>
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On 29 Aug 2009, at 08:49, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I am curious - not wanting to start a pissing contest or anything - > but why do you prefer D over other languages? > > Is D the wave of the future? > > Back when Microsoft shipped the very first version of Visual Studio > that supported C++, advertisements started appearing everywhere, > seeking coders with "5 years of Visual C++ experience". This > despite Visual C++ having been on the market for only a few months. > > So next year, are all the recruiters going to be looking for coders > with five years of Visual D experience? :-D It seems unlikely :). I got interested in D a couple of years ago and it seemed to be a nice attempt at a modern C-like language that didn't have all the baggage of C++. This project at least partly is my 'learn the language' project. D language features (garbage collection, dynamic arrays, associative arrays) have certainly made writing this a much more pleasant experience than trying to do the same thing in C++.
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