Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 8 14:58:13 PDT 2016


On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 21:24:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/7/2016 5:56 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> While this very true, it is clear that most D's complexity 
>> doesn't come from
>> there. D's complexity come for the most part from things being 
>> completely
>> unprincipled and lack of vision.
>
> All useful computer languages are unprincipled and complex due 
> to a number of factors:

I think this is a very dangerous assumption. And also not true.

What is true is that it is difficult to gain traction if a 
language does not look like a copy of a pre-existing and fairly 
popular language.



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