Finally -

After months of thinking about something better than C++, without *.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading or templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident! And to make this post short:

THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources to D. :-)

And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate programmers like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate language!

Cheers,

QUS

"QUS" <qus@go2.pl> wrote in message news:bgqs4c$ldk$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Finally -
>
> After months of thinking about something better than C++, without *.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading
or
> templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident!
And
> to make this post short:
>
> THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

It's getting pretty close, though it's still not there yet. Templates and modules are the areas still needing significant attention.

> So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources
to
> D. :-)
>
> And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate
programmers
> like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate language!

We're trying. :)


> Cheers,
>
> QUS

"QUS" <qus@go2.pl> wrote in message news:bgqs4c$ldk$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Finally -
>
> After months of thinking about something better than C++, without *.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading
or
> templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident!
And
> to make this post short:
>
> THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

Mine too! I'm glad you found us.


> So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources
to
> D. :-)

It's the enthusiasm of the D user community here that keeps me going.


> And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate
programmers
> like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate language!

Do you have a web site? What helps a lot is if you set up a D web page on it.

> >
> > THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)
>
> It's getting pretty close, though it's still not there yet. Templates and modules are the areas still needing significant attention.
>
> > So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources
> to
> > D. :-)
> >
I think the reverse ordering of arrays declares should be fully reversed to avoid confusion for Java programmers.

int[4][5]  b; should be [5][4]int;
so the as you can use the indexes b[0..4][0..3];
of course this effects * too :( which I gues would have to be reversed too
*int  ip; // pointer to int
*[4]*[5]*int pp; // pointer to and array of 4 pointers to array of 5
pointers to ints

again I would vote of a 'var' or 'my' keyword to releave parser preasure to allows this;

var * int p; // instead of int * p;
this also makes int * a,b; into `var *int a,b;` which to me is more readable
that a and b are the same (pointers to int).
imho, if you are going to change something make it as disimilar as pos from
other langs to avoid confusion, especially as I know very few ppl who
program in only one language now.