Final by default?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 04:13:42 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:40:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>>>
>>> The saying goes, "you can't make a bucket of yogurt without a 
>>> spoonful of rennet". The pattern of resetting customer code 
>>> into the next version must end. It's the one thing that both 
>>> current and future users want: a pattern of stability and 
>>> reliability.
>>
>> Doesn't this sort of seal the language's fate in the long run, 
>> though? Eventually, new programming languages will appear 
>> which will learn from D's mistakes, and no new projects will 
>> be written in D.
>>
>> Wasn't it here that I heard that a language which doesn't 
>> evolve is a dead language?
>>
>
> IMO, one of the reasons D exists is all the historical baggage 
> C/C++ chose to carry instead of evolving.
>

I would say to ignore as well, given that Modula-2 was created in 
1978 just as an example of better alternatives.