A summary of D's design principles

[retard]

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:44:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> I know nothing about Alice.

You SHOULD probably study the ML family of languages a bit more closely. 
It feels like we're having a conversation with a dinosaur.

After all, in the functional programming world, ML languages are the 
closest competitor of D. Why? Both try to be safe, modular, strict (= not 
lazy by default), functional, garbage collected, often compile to native 
code, and have an expressive static type system with inference.

Alice is the Alice ML dialect, http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/