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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by arunc on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:20AM (#22964906)
Reminded me of the fact that D templates are not Turning Complete.
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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by ben-schaaf on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:02AM (#22965395)
IIRC D templates are more powerful than C++ templates, and certainly turning complete. CTFE is also turning complete.
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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by FeepingCreature on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:05AM (#22965141)
As a D user, I highly doubt that, considering we had raytracers written in templates fourteen years and one major language version ago. [1] What stops them?

[1] http://h3.gd/posts/ctrace/

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