Self: >>D is a very nice language, that I hope to see more used. It is copying >>lot of things from Python.
Tim Roberts: >I don't see that. It looks rather like an incremental improvement to C and >C++ rather than a language influenced by Python. Thank you for your comments. Mine was probably just an illusion. In D most things are copied or come directly from C++. But I like the built in string and associative array management, the string/array slicing, the multiple return or typed multiple input, the nested functions, the foreach with a bit of type inferencing, and some other things that I like in Python too, but absent in C++ (GCC has some nested functions, etc). (But D lacks some of the suggestions in this article, link coming from Paddy: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt ) This is the first thing written about D into its site: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ >D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and >high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern >languages like Ruby and Python.< This is a thread about related matters, with a comment from Walter, the D autor: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/19839.html Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
