A Mathematician looks at D

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On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 22:07:00 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18r7zk/a_mathematician_looks_at_d/
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> No "REPL", I guess we are rubbish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop says almost ALL 
languages one way or another have it, mentions c/c++... a sick 
joke to someone who has C++ background and learning CL.

Language wars are over and substance is not the victor, it 
doesn't mean anything anymore, everything has FP, OOP, GUI, REPL, 
LC, RP, OSD... and what have you.

It is like all computer industry is swarmed by marketing and no 
actual programmer/scientist left. REPL in CL is "live coding", 
not a language feature from future, something already there for 
many decades. You have an application *running* you change 
something, you hit a button and *instantly* you have the result 
right there in front of you.

If you don't have a REPL (and many other features probably only 
available to lisp), yes you are rubbish if you are a dynamic 
language. D's strength is templates, static typing and needs 
focus on that.