Is D a cult?

[Walter Bright]

James Iry wrote:
> I'm going to assume you meant "enforce" rather than "support" because
> both languages support immutability and purity precisely to the
> extent that the programmers want to use them (although, of the two,
> Scala's standard library has far more support).

So does C. The problem is, without compiler support, you have a very 
difficult time telling by visual inspection if code is functional or not.

It's like turning off type checking in your C compiler. It still works, 
but it's really bug prone.