Breaking compatibilyt hurts

[naryl]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Jesse Phillips wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My take on this is he wanted to use Lisp and went looking for a 
> justification.

But he was considering Clojure which is a dialect of Lisp and didn't choose it for the same reasons as Python and Ruby.