Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 13 10:30:53 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 18:37:20 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> The thread was about complexity in the language. My point is 
> that the current way things are done introduce a lot of 
> accidental complexity, which is overall undesirable. This 
> impact negatively various aspects of the languages, including, 
> but not limited to, @safe .
>
> The problem I'm pointing at is that problems are considered in 
> isolation, with disregard to the big picture. Ironically, this 
> is exactly what is happening here, by debating every example to 
> death rather than on the point.

Software design is an iterative process because one can't sort 
everything at once. Recommended read: 
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670/


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