How Nested Functions Work, part 2

[Lutger]

language_fan wrote:

> Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:09:56 +0000, language_fan thusly wrote:
> 
>> Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:44:33 -0700, Walter Bright thusly wrote:
>> 
>>> Lutger wrote:
>>>> Cool article, I posted a comment. Reddit seems to be going downhill
>>>> fast though, it's even worse than slashdot.
>>> 
>>> I know, the negative comments don't even make any sense.
>>> 
>>>> Are locally instantiated templates used in phobos?
>>> 
>>> Yes.
>> 
>> I read the comments and I think some of them are justified. You cannot
>> really expect the way you built dmd to be the only alternative.
>> Efficient closures can be implemented differently if you have a VM that
>> supports precise generational gc, region inference, and the language is
>> a bit more value oriented (= functional).

Where does it say that the article describes the one true method? 

> Another thing is that often when an article about D is released, the only
> positive comments come from the members of the existing (smallish)
> community. There is no real interest in D outside the community (IMHO).
> Reddit's programming section is full of language fanatics, thus it is a
> bit hard to impress folks with tiny tricks as they daily work with
> various programming languages and concepts.

The majority of the negative comments on this post follow one of two lines 
of attacks: 1) D sucks or 2) Glaringly obvious straw man. From most of 
these, it's quite clear they haven't even read the article but responded 
anyway.