DMD 0.165 release
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Mon Aug 21 00:46:54 PDT 2006
Don Clugston wrote:
> * Together with lambda delegate type inference, it seems that delegates
> are becoming the central language idiom of D. It's not just an improved
> C++ any more, I think a whole new programming style is developing.
Inner classes, nested functions, delegates, and closures are all closely
related. The only thing missing in D is the full generality of closures;
once we have that I think D can do what Lisp does, but with a much more
palatable syntax.
> * Andrei's involvement in D seems to be increasing. Can we expect him to
> publish some D code soon?
Andrei is one of the few original thinkers in programming. With D he's
been generous with his ideas and critiques, but he's pretty wrapped up
with his university studies.
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