What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/19/11 9:04 PM, Gary Whatmore wrote:
> Jesse Phillips Wrote:
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>> DSSS seemed to provide a great amount of simplicity and power... the problem is that it didn't always work.
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> I always wondered what happened to that boy. He had impressive coding skills and lots of pragmatic common sense. There was at least one weakness in his persona if he left D, he was dumb enough to not realize the capability our language has now. That's just plainly stupidest thing to do wrt programming languages.

Gregor left when he started grad school, and grad school asks for all 
your time and then some more.

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/gkrichar/


Andrei