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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-15 14:35, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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...

I agree with: "... D supports an unusually large number of paradigms for 
a programming".

>> 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
>

I'm just listing what's on the wikipedia page, as Walter did.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg