Scott Meyers wants to bring default zero-initialization to C++, mentions TDPL for precedent

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/21/2015 3:32 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Rather than having an aristocratic attitude toward these languages that we
> perceive as badly designed, we should be really asking ourselves the question
> "what did they get right ? Can we get it right too ?". Because we have signal
> here, that is telling us this thing really matter.

15 years ago, everyone loved to bash BASIC as a terrible language. I did too. 
But then I was looking at some Visual Basic code for a friend, and noticed 
something I had forgotten - it was really easy to manipulate strings. I was used 
to the horrible way of dealing with strings in C. I resolved that D had to have 
strings as nice as BASICs, and pretty much succeeded.