Better branding of -betterC

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Nov 3 05:26:51 UTC 2020


On 11/1/2020 12:46 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
> How is that relevant? There are natively compiled Lisps. Also, to compile D at 
> runtime, you need a D compiler as part of the runtime environment. If you insist 
> on singling out one language that popularized CTFE, Lisp would be a much fairer 
> choice.

It's been said that eventually all languages tend to adopt all the features of 
Lisp. But that doesn't mean that Lisp popularized those features. After all, 
Lisp is one of the original programming languages, and if it popularized CTFE 
then C, C++, Pascal, etc., would have had it long ago.


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