Super-dee-duper D features

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> kris wrote:
> 
>>>> 5) Lisp gets things right, according to what I've read from heavy 
>>>> Lisp users, by being a language that can be modified on the fly to 
>>>> suit the task at hand, in other words, by having a customizable 
>>>> language one can achieve dramatic productivity gains.
>>>
>>> Yet, Lisp will always remain a niche language. You have to wonder why.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's the syntax.
> 
> And the recursion.
> People just don't naturally think recursively.
> 
> And the lack of mutable data structures.
> OCaml tried to fix that, but OCaml's probably always going to be niche 
> as well (see first point).

LISP does have mutation. Besides, many people naturally think 
recursively, and many problems (e.g. parsing) can be easiest thought of 
that way.

Andrei