Walter Bright wrote: > An oldie, but some very thought provoking observations on what makes a > language productive: > > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~irenelg/courses/330/CTM/Resources/C++-vs-Lisp.txt Interestingly, this same analysis was posted by Josh Stern in 2006 on D.announce. You were even involved in the ensuing discussion quite a bit :-) Sean