"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fuxnqnmrskrfqqmhd...@forum.dlang.org... > > Nested functions, auto, and scope guards were the > three killers in the pre-D1 that roped me in. And > they rok, oh they rok. But that is "likely success" :) >
The main thing that grabbed me in the pre-D1 days was the lack of header files in a non-VM systems langauge. Everything else was icing on the cake. Although, while it wasn't a major selling point in and of itself, the ability to put underscores in numeric literals *really* helped tell me, "Now *this* is a language that's very well thought out and values pragmatism." And *that* was the other main thing about D that grabbed me. > One that surprised me personally though is import. Indeed, > import is why I passed over D the first time I looked > at it (in 2004 IIRC) - I saw "import" and said "gah > include is fine, eff this Java like poo.. > Heh, really? I started getting tired of C++ around 2002-ish, and around the same time, some college courses I was taking were introducing me to Java. I was never a fan of Java overall, and there's a lot about it I always *hated*, but the lack of header files was one thing that *did* really impress me about Java (the other things were reference semantics for classes and GC). It was enough that, at the time, I considered it a reasonable alternative to C++ for things that didn't need number crunching, high performance or low-level access - at least until I discovered C# and D (eventually I got tired of C#'s limitations, too).
