What's your opinion on Functional D?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:05:26 -0400, Hans-Eric Grönlund wrote:

> A little shameless self-promotion here, but I'd really love to hear your
> opinions on the subject:
> 
> http://www.hans-eric.com/2008/04/16/the-future-of-d-is-functional/
> Discussion on Reddit:
> http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6fyrd/comments
> 
> Regards
> 
> Hans-Eric Grönlund

I am actually looking forward to the release of D2. The large change in 
direction is definitely one that is likely to drive people away. In fact 
when I was first doing reading on function programming, I had thought 
about the possibility of having a language set, where you would have 
different languages that would each have their own paradigm, but easily 
used within one another.

In any case I do believe that D should go forward as incorporating the 
paradigms into one. Yes the original goal was to make a better C++, and 
it has been getting greater recognition. I think if D wishes to change 
its direction, now is the time to do it.

Of course I always like trying new things, but I would think that is 
common for a lot of users of D <g>.