Super-dee-duper D features

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> kris wrote:

>>> 5) Lisp gets things right, according to what I've read from heavy 
>>> Lisp users, by being a language that can be modified on the fly to 
>>> suit the task at hand, in other words, by having a customizable 
>>> language one can achieve dramatic productivity gains.
>>
>> Yet, Lisp will always remain a niche language. You have to wonder why.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's the syntax.

And the recursion.
People just don't naturally think recursively.

And the lack of mutable data structures.
OCaml tried to fix that, but OCaml's probably always going to be niche 
as well (see first point).

--bb