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Re:Metaprogramming is less fun in D by kmicklas on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:56PM (#14169746)
And yet somehow they managed to ignore the majority of what has been learned in the last several decades of language design progress.
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Re:Metaprogramming is less fun in D by grzm on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:01PM (#14169764)
Given their experience, I strongly suspect they made the choices they did knowingly, rather than out of ignorance.
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Re:Metaprogramming is less fun in D by mcguire on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:48PM (#14170543)
These two comments are not mutually incompatible. There is also a reason I've been heard to say that Not Invented Here syndrome was invented at Bell Labs.
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