Why I like D

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:07 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter:
>
>>It was sitting down and realizing that with OCaml I was basically going to have to re-learn how to do everything I already knew how to do, but using Monads or whatever.<
>
> A little learning pain may be useful to grow. So learning some functional programming may be positive.
> It may even become useful for D :-)

Agreed.  I knew some ML from grad school, so it wasn't totally new to
me.  But dabbling a bit in a different language is a big step from
diving in head first and making that your primary development
language.

>
>
>>And I also got increasingly annoyed by the silly runtime errors that any decent compiler would tell me about.<
>
> Generally I don't have such problems, but maybe my style of coding is quite "careful" anyway.

You never mistype the name of a variable?

--bb