D: A solution looking for a problem?
BCS
none at anon.com
Wed Mar 24 10:39:08 PDT 2010
Hello Blaise,
>> Sure: whatever problem you want to solve in D can be solved by any
>> other turing-complete language just as well...
>>
> Strawman.
>
>> Still, there are many problems that can be solved in D far more
>> elegantly than in other languages.
>>
> Theoretically, huh. Until they are [solved with/by D] though, there
> really is not product there, huh. And I hear this a book trying to
> capitalize on this "personal D R&D" thing. Have they considered LSD
> and offering Koolaid when it all comes crashing down?
>
>> And since programmers are humans,
>> elegance is essential for correctness and managability of code.
> That was certainly a statement of wishful thinking, I suggest though,
> it was a statement of unknowing. "D" doesn't know what the problem is.
>
All the assertion you just made (or at least the ones that made any sense
at all) are equaly true of ALL programming languages.
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