Unofficial wish list status.(Jul 2008)

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Depends on the problem being solved.  Right now however, Erlang backed by
>> D is the best I've found for general purpose server / distributed 
>> programming.
>> That gives me a control language with a good parallel programming 
>> model as
>> well as systems / mutable state language for optimization points, 
>> shared data,
>> and systems programming bits.  So perhaps roughly similar to D2 from a 
>> 1000'
>> viewpoint, but as always, the devil's in the details.
> 
> But, you said you didn't wish to mix functional and imperative 
> programming? I don't understand.

Not in the same language.  One reason being the impact it will have on 
managing projects in D.  C++, for example, supports a sufficiently 
diverse set of programming methodologies that large projects in it tend 
to be a mess.

Regarding the D mixed functional / imperative approach, another issue I 
have with it is that it's exactly the reverse of the Erlang / C model. 
While Erlang / C is functional for control structures and imperative for 
optimization points, D looks like it will be imperative for control and 
functional for optimization.  Plus, I really like the concurrency model 
in Erlang.


Sean