On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 08:19:56PM +0100, Paulo Pinto wrote: > On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 18:06:21 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: [...] > >A more interesting comment is this one: > > > >"But the real problem here is that in order to achieve even that, > >the complexity and amount of concepts you have to deal with in > >C++11 is mind boggling." > > > >The same is true in D. Well-written D code often does look rather > >elegant, but the amount of understanding needed to write beautiful > >D code is staggering. > > I have to agree having to deal with lots of concepts.
I don't see it as a problem, unless one is a programmer of the drone persuasion. Many of D's concepts are liberatingly powerful, and very potent in combination. > On the other hand, except for the programming drones, most D > concepts are also available in most mainstream languages. [...] If we want to minimize the number of concepts, we should program using Lambda calculus. ;-) We already have lambda-syntax for delegates, after all. Now just restrict all statements to only lambda expressions, get rid of difficult concepts like arithmetic operators, variables and imperative programming, and we have a winner on our hands. Seriously, though, imagining that one can program effectively without learning new concepts is a preposterous proposition to me. I just don't understand the unwillingness to learn. T -- Computers shouldn't beep through the keyhole.
