D's greatest mistakes

[bearophile]

Walter:

> There are a thousand languages out there. I could spend multiple lifetimes 
> studying them, and then have to start all over with the new crop of languages, 
> and accomplish absolutely nothing.

It's a matter of balance. If you want to design something new you need to keep yourself updated too. Otherwise you miss new trends and you risk repeating the errors already done by other language designers. This means programming a little now and then in new languages is necessary (I mean languages like C#, Scala, etc). Even a surgeon can't waste all the life just studying medicine books, but if she/he doesn't study now and then, such person misses all updates and eventually becomes dangerous at the operating table. So some intermediate solution must be adopted.

Bye,
bearophile