Why is D unpopular

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 15:43:52 UTC 2022


On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 14:09:54 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
> "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection 
> and
> hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all 
> things. It
> can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other
> systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them."

Simula was created for simulation. It added inheritance and 
virtual functions to an Algol like language. You don't need 
encapsulation to do simulation.

Talking about Smalltalk in this context is strange.




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