A score card?

bcs bcs at example.com
Wed Oct 12 21:47:58 PDT 2011


On 10/12/2011 11:19 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 10:06 AM, bcs wrote:
>> http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html
>>
>> By my count, there is only 17 reasons D "will not work".
>>
>> Not bad considering every language out will hit a few of those points.
>
> There'd be no progress in programming languages if people paid attention
> to those things :-)

To make progress, you need to be insightful enough to get the point, 
smart enough to know that it's true and crazy enough to ignore it all.

Or to put it another way, every programming language ever created is a 
total failure for at least one of those reasons.


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