"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.973.1296080233.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 14:09:25 Walter Bright wrote: >> Trass3r wrote: >> > But once you had a test drive, you just can't get out anymore. >> >> I've had more than one longtime C++ expert tell me that after using D for >> a >> while, then for work reasons get forced back into C++, just find >> themselves >> cringing every time they edit it. > > LOL. Yeah. There's just so many little things that D improves on that when > you're stuck in C++ land, you're constantly running into little things > that you > miss having or are annoyed to have to deal with. auto has probably been > the > biggest one for me, though slicing isn't far behind. At least auto will be > in > C++ 0x... >
For me, D's killer features were string handling (slicing and appending/concatenation) and *no header files*. (No more header files!! Yay!!!). But auto is fantastic too though, I get sooo much use out of that.