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[Bent Rasmussen]

Looks familiar :-)

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=77477

- Bent


"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> skrev i meddelelsen 
news:gd85n2$9rq$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Just got this from Eric Niebler:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4apat7
>
> Guess what Anders Heljsberg and Guy Steele have to say about future of 
> programming languages.
>
> Immutable and eliminating side effects are necessary. Quickly written down 
> from Anders: "...we need support for immutable data at the language 
> level..." "...so that the compiler can infer that there is isolation..." 
> "... formalization of immutability... we don't have them in the language 
> and it's nontrivial to put them in... and that's the big challenge." He 
> goes on and describes the difficulties... and mentions "pure functions" 
> and "transitivity" and "functional extensions"!!! "Pure FP is not the 
> solution... what we try to do is to have islands of purity in functional 
> style and switch between default to functional in a hybrid style of 
> programming... the answer is not at the extreme..."
>
> This is huge. You have to listen to it to hear just how huge it is. He is 
> essentially describing some of the difficulties we have encountered and 
> already solved in D2, so it looks we have a strategic advantage.
>
> This is the confirmation I hoped was going to come someday. If it 
> surprises me, it that it comes so early, so unequivocally, and so aligned 
> terminologically. I'm in Nirvana.
>
>
> Andrei
>
> P.S. Guy Steele mentions Unicode operators favorably too. Nyuk-nyuk.