Proposal: Database Engine for D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 11:37:40 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> (*) Arguably Scala takes this too far.


Btw, regarding operator overloading:

Your comment about Scala made me think about the proposals for 
Algol which allowed the language to be heavily extended with even 
custom operator precedence IIRC. Interestingly, the Pony authors 
have decided that most operators should be explicitly grouped 
using parentheses, they argue that most programmers fail to 
remember precedence. I think that is mostly the case, especially 
with the somewhat flawed C precedence rules.

Related note, I find this tongue-in-cheek comparison of Go and 
Algol68 is quite entertaining:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

I think older languages such as Simula67, Algol68, Beta, ML etc 
still are quite interesting objects for study. It is scary how 
little progress have been made in the past 30 years... 
Fortunately some people are preserving books in PDF format.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/book/Lindsey_van_der_Meulen-IItA68-Revised.pdf