Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/12/2016 1:41 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> And to be frank D's symbol resolution isn't suitable for programming-in-the-large
> either.

Explain.


 > teaching

Frictionless masses are useful for teaching engineering, but are not 
useful in the real world, which tends to be complicated and dirty, just 
like useful programming languages.


> Of course, Prolog is old and there are also other alternatives for
> various types of problem solving, but the fact that almost every CS
> student have some understanding of Prolog unification makes it very
> influential.

I asked for one feature originating in Prolog that made its way into 
mainstream languages.

You dismissed C++'s enormous influence in getting languages to adopt 
OOP, but defend Prolog influencing others with unification.