A summary of D's design principles

Justin Johansson no at spam.com
Thu Oct 21 06:28:40 PDT 2010


On 21/10/2010 11:13 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 17/09/2010 23:39, retard wrote:
>> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> retard wrote:
>>>> FWIW, if you're picking up one of the most used languages out there,
>>>> their list won't differ that much:
>>>
>>> Exactly. Much of that can be summed up as D being intended for
>>> professional production use, rather than:
>>>
>>> 1. a teaching tool (Pascal)
>>> 2. a research project (Haskell)
>>> 3. being focussed on solving one particular problem (Erlang) 4. designed
>>> to promote a related product (Flash) 5. designed for kids (Logo)
>>> 6. designed for non-programmers (Basic) 7. one paradigm to rule them all
>>> (Smalltalk) 8. gee, math is hard (Java)
>>> 9. implementing skynet (Lisp)
>>
>> A funny pic, somewhat related.. (language X, as seen by language Y users)
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/1gF1j.jpg
>
> retard, this is your best post ever! xP

Yes, it was a good post by retard.
I remember seeing it a few weeks ago.
IIRC D was not in the matrix of pictures
and one wonders how the missing rows/columns
for D should be rendered. :-)





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