Functional Programming in D

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 08:59:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:

> I feel that it is best to leave functional programming to 
> functional programming language, e.g. Haskell, Scheme, etc. 
> rather than try to do functional programming in imperative 
> languages, e.g. Java, C++, Rust, D. The reason is things like 
> lazy evaluation and the consistency of everything being a 
> function, etc. The underlying computational models of 
> functional programming languages and imperative programming 
> languages need different mindsets to use well. Witness the 
> issues in using Scala.

My impressions is that the complaints about Scala are similar to 
C++: too many features that clash with one another and make the 
language complicated, plus extremely slow compilation times. I 
haven't seen a lot of complaints about mixing imperative and 
functional.