Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:09:25 -0800, 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.
I also got brainwashed by the C++ advocates years ago. However, I didn't need D to see how terrible writing C++ is. C++ sure is a powerful language and sometimes a necessary evil, but you don't really need very strong doses of more recent languages to see how much nicer everything else is.