On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 12:34:42 UTC, Tobias Pankrath
wrote:
Since it is a comparison of languages it's okay to match the
original behaviour.
I don't think this is really a great comparison of languages
either though because it is gluing together a couple library
tasks. Only a few bits about the actual language are showing
through.
In the given regex solutions, C++ has an advantage over C wherein
the regex structure can be freed automatically in a destructor
and a raw string literal in here, but that's about all from the
language itself. The original one is kinda long because he didn't
use a http get library, not because the language couldn't do one.
There are bits where the language can make those libraries nicer
too: dom.d uses operator overloading and opDispatch to support
things like .attribute and also .attr.X and .style.foo and
element["selector"].addClass("foo") and so on implemented in very
very little code - I didn't have to manually list methods for the
collection or properties for the attributes - ...but a library
*could* do it that way and get similar results for the end user;
the given posts wouldn't show that.
