On Monday, 23 July 2012 at 15:56:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 23.07.2012 14:49, schrieb Stuart:
On Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 22:16:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
C++ is living in the 70's.
Precisely what I have been thinking. It's a loose wrapper
around
assembly, nothing more. Certainly not the "high-level language"
it's touted as.
Only due to the lack of modules.
Everything else is a pretty modern language I would say.
Hardly. No RTTI. No GC. No properties. No events. No closures. No
extension methods. No interfaces. No writable references.
I can live without a GC; and interfaces can be simulated using
pure virtual base classes; but all the others are standard in
pretty much any modern language and impossible to reproduce in
C++.
Incidentally, it'd be really handy to have anonymous tuples in D.
Not many languages let you do that. For example:
tuple!(int, float) fn() { ... }
int a;
float b;
(a, b) = fn();
auto (c, d) = fn();
Saves us having to create a struct for every goddamn little
function; or using tuples directly, which means we have to refer
to variables like .value1 and .value2 instead of something
meaningful.
