On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:43:46 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

>  Oh yes and C++ is a godawful mess of a language as a direct result
> of trying to be C with objects and winding up neither fish nor fowl.
> Templating did nothing to make it less of a mess IMHO.
>
Couldn't agree more - especially as the majority of the C++ I've looked
at didn't have a single object or class declaration in sight: it was
nothing but C with // comments and using cin/cout/cerr  in place of stdin/
stdout/stderr.

> I wish D had caught on.
>
Never seen it, but I way back in the late 70s I had more than a slight
acquaintance with Algol 68 - actually Algol68R run on the George 3 OS -
which I really liked as a concise and expressive language. Not OO but
with several of the OO concepts (operator overloading, mode extensions)
very nicely implemented.


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