Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 10:28:51 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> So yea, the Haxe language itself wasn't really a key thing for 
> me, just what it allowed me to *avoid* doing. But even those 
> reasons are loosing their bite for me now, since Flash has 
> pretty much become legacy, vibe.d has appeared, and I'd just as 
> soon avoid the entire PHP runtime as a whole.

I like the basic idea of Haxe since it in theory would allow 
programming cross platform on mobile units, but Apple, Google and 
Microsoft have made moves to make cross platform programming more 
difficult by deliberately being different for the sake of being 
different...

> Heh, I guess that's where we differ ;) I'm...not exactly a big 
> Python fan, and I find D totally production-ready.

Well, I wasn't a Python fan until I started using it, and still 
don't like the dynamic aspects of it, but the language/library 
support is better than the alternatives.

The syntax does not prevent Python from scaling with a decent 
IDE, the lack of compile time type safety does. However it is 
nice to replace perl, bash, php etc with one cross platform 
language. Python manage to cover a lot of ground.

That said I consider using D for a Windows tool (reading CVS 
files and uploading the result to a web server as a "cron" job). 
If I can do full static linking and just install a single binary 
then I can get simple "unbreakable" installs on client computers.