On 8/12/16 4:59 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 20:16:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 15:41:42 UTC, Edward Diener wrote:
the arrogance by which D was initially and repeatedly compared
against C/C++ has been totally out of place since the C++ is a very
good language and the effort made to denigrate it with specious and
ridiculously false arguments about it vis-a-vis D as a programming
language has almost irreparably hurt D as a serious programming
language irrespective of its actual abilities or weaknesses. You are
not going to appeal to the really intelligent programmers out there
if you are not honest and rigorous in discussion of your own
programming language in relation to others. All that you end up doing
is to alienate anyone with real programming intelligence by the
tactics that D has taken over the years with such comparisons.
I never understood how people can get their feelings hurt when
criticising the language they program in. Either the criticised point is
true and one accepts it or not, in that case a factual refutation can be
done. Feeling offended is ridiculous.
I recall I had a similar reaction as Edward back in the day. No hurt
feelings or anything, but the arguments made were so specious I'd roll
my eyes whenever I saw them in the C++ forums. -- Andrei
