Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Fri Aug 31 15:13:30 UTC 2018


On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 14:38:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 09:37:55AM +0000, Chris via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> 3. moving the goal posts all the time and forcing you into a 
>> new paradigm every 1 1/2 years (first it was "ranges", then 
>> "templates" and now it's "functional", wait OOP will come back 
>> one day).
> [...]
>
> Wait, what?  Since when has this ever been a "choose one 
> paradigm among many" deal?  Templates are what enables 
> range-based idioms to succeed, and ranges are what makes it 
> possible to write functional-like code in D.  Since when have 
> they become mutually exclusive?!
>
>
> T

I wasn't talking about that, but about the fact that users are 
slowly but surely nudged into a certain direction. And yes, D was 
advertised as a "no ideology language".


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