Is D a cult?

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 05:12:14 PST 2010


retard wrote:

> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:05:03 +0000, BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Jane,
>> 
>>> Is D a cult?
>>> 
>>> 
>> No, not yet. Walter hasn't figured out how to brain wash people over a
>> newsgroup yet. However I think Andrei's working on it and Don should
>> have a patch in time for TDPL going out ;b
> 
> FWIW, I think there is a kernel of truth in the original claim. People
> tend to agree evey time Walter proposes a new feature such as built-in
> regexps - yes, they were removed shortly afterwards. But when bearophile
> or some retard propose some features from functional languages that are
> natural extensions to existing ones, everyone hates them and tells us to
> go back to our ivory towers.

That's weird, I don't see this at all. Maybe you focus too much on one or two 
negative comments? 

I also don't understand that you think D designers have a bias against 
functional programming, especially since the majority of the features that 
have been implemented the last years are heavily influenced by that style of 
programming. 



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