A few comments about D

[Caligo]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>wrote:

> Paulo Pinto:
>
> > - the language is still not mature - Andrei's book still does not fully
> > replace the language and
> > when one browses the mailing lists there are still quite a few features
> > being discussed, not clear
> > enough what the direction ought to be.
>
> It's the other way round. Those discussions are a sign of good health for
> any language, they are necessary.
> Every language actively used has similar discussions, even Fortran and Ada.
> See as example:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/
>
>
> > And the comment about F# is spot on. It is easier to get a client
> approval
> > to use F#, Scala, Clojure
> > even Haskell on a new project than D, because there are quite a few big
> > companies/projects using them.
>
> Haskell was created as "laboratory language", and today it has more design
> discussions than D still :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>

Haskell is one of the most beautiful languages. I wish I had discovered it
sooner.
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