Is D a cult?

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> It's perfectly clear to me that no matter what you do, D won't become a 
> functional language because the core runs on an imperative Turing 
> machine. But the functional constructs can help building more readable 
> and reliable code. That's why C# and Scala got those features..

I'll reply to your other points later, but this one bothers me. Neither 
C# nor Scala support pure functions or immutable data structures, which 
are fundamental to FP. I don't see how they can be considered as 
supporting functional programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)#Functional_programming

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