Breaking compatibilyt hurts

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips+D at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 18:10:42 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:

> One of the comments in there:
>
> "One of the greatest problems I found when trying Common Lisp was the 
> large number of implementations and the disorganization of the library 
> space. It is hard for a newcomer to decide which libraries are 
> available, which are maintained, which are dead."
>
> You can't please everyone.
>
> I also think his criticism of Python is invalid. He's got just what he 
> wants, Python 2.0, but complains it won't get improvements. Then he 
> complains when it gets improvements in the form of Python 3.0.
>
> You just can't have it both ways.

Well, part of the problem is that you can use all of those arguments
against D (That includes the complaint about Lisp). Maybe not if you
just look at D1 or just D2, and many times the complaints aren't as
big an issue as they are made out to be once you start using the
language. And yes, Lisp did seem an odd choice considering why he didn't
choose the one of the other languages.



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