Jessehk

I was initially smitten by D (as grumpy can attest to), but I've lost most of my interest in it.
While it offers some very nice solutions to C++, it is plagued by 3 things in my opinion:

1) Complexity. If you take a look at the mailing list, every second thread is a request for a new feature. Have any of you actually looked at the feature list? It has become more complex than C++ (const being an example).

2) Instability. There are now 2 competing libraries: Tango (community-driven) and Phobos (official). A lot of work is duplicated and effort is wasted. Some projects rely on one, other projects the other. From my perspective, it has fractured the already small community.

3) Tools. DMD is cross-platform but has strange licensing rules and is closed-source (the back-end, anyway). The GCC back-end, GDC, is not well supported and lags behind DMD in terms of full-implementation.

Just my opinion.

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Arla

And the real question... will it ever replace Cobol?

Grich

COBOL is a specialist language - mostly for Mainframes and Business software. Apparently the two most used programming languages (we are looking at all feilds - engineering, finances, games, web porgramming, education etc) are Visual Basic and COBOL. Read it some were, I think it was called "Code Complete".

Would you really make a game in cobol? ... Actually, that would be a good challenge!

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grumpy

A friend of mine wrote a game of hangman in Cobol .... as a learning exercise.

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Grich

Ha! Now I have heard everything!
I have coded a bit in COBOL, but I have had NO inspiration to code a game in it.

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Arla

I guess my point was that people have been saying that Cobol is dead for years, each new language that comes out is going to "replace Cobol" heck most of the people I work with were told 20 years ago that Cobol is dead and already being replaced... and yet we still seem to be coding in Cobol.

JOORDEE

What about C#, does that have any potential of replacing C/C++

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JD-Salinger

i think not... ive read a lot of threads here... c# and c++ are different, c# is much closer to java, but in terms of performance c++ is above c#, c# is much easier to use in making GUI applications.

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Grich

C#: Microsoft's answer to Java and a way to get into the ever growing RAD world.

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