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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/15/11 1:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-11-15 10:16, Walter Bright wrote:
>> But whatever color one's shed is painted, it's pretty clear that D
>> supports an unusually large number of paradigms for a programming
>> language. It doesn't start from an idea that "everything is an object".
>
> I agree with that.

How does this agreement...

> According to this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages
>
> Most languages are multi-paradigm.
>
> Smalltalk: concurrent, declarative, event-driven, object-oriented,
> reflective
>
> Java: generic, imperative, object-oriented, reflective
>
> Go: concurrent, imperative
>
> Haskell: functional, generic, lazy evaluation

... go with this? I mean if the purpose is to argue petty details, sure. 
But "concurrent" or "reflective" are hardly paradigms, Java does not 
allow one to write a free function (which stands in the way of it being 
imperative), and in Haskell "functional" and "lazy evaluation" are not 
options, they're _always on_.


Andrei