A summary of D's design principles

[retard]

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:43:45 +0200, Lutger wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately no, but the web site gives an impression that the 
development has stalled few years ago. I think Alice used the Oz's 
runtime, but is now a separate project with a new backend. If I'd write 
something significant commercial code in any functional language, I might 
choose F# or Haskell instead.