A summary of D's design principles

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 09:43:45 PDT 2010


retard wrote:

> 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/

Do you know if Alice is suited for practical programming, any experience? I know 
only that it is somewhat related to Oz which had a reasonably extensive 
ecosystem, but it doesn't seem to be developed anymore. 




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