D and the world

[Jeff Nowakowski]

David B. Held wrote:
> I think D has a bigger threat from Scala than C#.  Whereas C# is just 
> another Java,

That was true for the first version of C#, but they've been adding tons 
of high level features ever since.  In version 3, there will be stuff 
like type inferencing, lambda expressions, etc.  LINQ is really cool, 
too, neatly unifying in a typechecked way databases, XML, etc.  There's 
also F#, another .NET language, if you really want to go functional. 
.NET is an awesome platform.  The only problem with it is that it's from 
Microsoft.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Introduction_to_C__3.asp

> Scala aims to be an academic language

That's not true.  It comes from an academic environment, but it is 
targeted towards industry.  That's why Scala is byte compatible with the 
JVM and Java libraries.  They also support .NET, but that support has 
fallen behind with the latest versions.

-Jeff