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[Daniel Gibson]

Am 15.11.2011 22:54, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 11/15/2011 1:31 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Scala is also termed a "multi-paradigm programming language", see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
>
> Scala's multi-paradigms are OOP and functional.
>
> Yet it doesn't support function purity or immutable data. Having a
> syntax for lambdas doesn't make a language functional. I know few people
> share my opinion about that, but it seems that functional is used a lot
> as a buzzword.

I have never used Scala but only heard about it and skimmed over the 
wikipedia article.
Technically it may not support functional programming because it lacks 
function purity and immutable data, but judging from the code example it 
has the look and feel of functional programming - the qsort example 
(which is no real quicksort of course) looks very much like Haskell 
(pattern matching etc).

D2 on the other hand support pure functions and immutable data, but it 
doesn't look and feel like a "normal" functional language.
I guess people used to OO programming, (C++-style) Metaprogramming or 
imperative programming feel at home with D and its support for "their" 
paradigms, but people coming from Haskell or similar languages will 
probably have a hard time using their style of code with D2 - while they 
probably feel more at home with Scala, even though D2 supports real 
functional programming and Scala doesn't.

Cheers,
- Daniel