tolf and detab

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 08/08/2010 14:31, dsimcha wrote:
> I disagree completely.  D is clearly designed from the "simple things should be
> simple and complicated things should be possible" point of view.  If it doesn't
> work well for these kinds of short scripts then we've failed at making simple
> things simple and we're just like every other crappy "large scale, industrial
> strength" language like Java and C++ that's great for megaprojects but makes
> simple things complicated.

dsimcha wrote:
"I hate Java and every programming language where a readable hello world 
takes more than 3 SLOC"

That may be your preference, but other people here in the community, me 
at least, very much want D to be a "large scale, industrial strength" 
language that's great for megaprojects. I think that medium and large 
scale projects are simply much more important and interesting than small 
scale ones.

I am hoping this would become an *explicit* point of D design goals, if 
it isn't already.
And I will campaign against (so to speak), people like you who think 
small scale is more important. No personal animosity intended though.

Note: I am not stating that is is not possible to be good, even great, 
at both things (small and medium/large scale).


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer