Blog post: What D got wrong

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 12:20:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 10:19:14 UTC, Russel Winder 
> wrote:
>> Clojure is but you have to work hard for that, the initial 
>> language is effectively pure.
>
> https://ideone.com/y8KWja clearly it isn't, its site only 
> claims that most code happens to be pure, but it looks like 
> it's not checked in any way and not sure if purity can be even 
> checked there.

 From the Clojure homepage: "Clojure is impure, yet stands behind 
the philosophy that programs that are more functional are more 
robust." The goal is to make it easy to program in a functional 
style, not to provide a pure functional programming language. It 
is like OCaml in that respect.