"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:hk1ksq$153...@digitalmars.com... > John D wrote: >> "bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message >> news:hjh61f$2c6...@digitalmars.com... >>> Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short & >>> safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being >>> developed)? >>> http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html >>> >>> >>> (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse >>> language (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one >>> ). >>> >> >> I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People >> say that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better >> OSes are possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't >> used the new Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming >> anyway, so it's underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no >> comparable competitor. >> >> On the flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the >> best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I >> use it but I liked using it better before I knew so much about it. > > As Napoleon said - every soldier carries a marshal's baton :o). >
I can look that up, but it's easier if I just ask you to explain your curt comment and how it relates as a response to my post. Pray tell!
