Scala design process vs D

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Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> retard wrote:
> > I only now realized how disciplined and professional the Scala design 
> > process is vs amateur languages like D. Just look how clearly they are 
> > able to express the changes of a minor release update:
> > 
> > http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4587
> > 
> > They also have the concept of improvement documents (kind of like DIP):
> > 
> > http://www.scala-lang.org/sid/8
> > 
> > It's no wonder Scala is doing so well whilst it's still very young.
> 
> Walter vs. Odersky is like Rocky vs. Drago: while Odersky is training in 
> the most controlled conditions and with the best equipment, Walter is 
> training most alone in the mountains, in the most primitive conditions 
> (e.g. microemacs has no syntax coloring!) and with only one lousy companion.
> 
> (Walter from the mountaintop: Oderskyyyyyyyyy!...)
> 
> 
> Andrei

As far as I know, C was always the preferred language of wild guns and gung ho programmers (opposed of pascal and academic by the book bunch of coders). Guess the legacy continued to C++/D. So Walther chops wood while Odersky write docs...