Property discussion wrap-up

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On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 13:23:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> As far as I understand this presupposes (a) a fluid style of 
> programming is associated exclusively with scripting languages, 
> (b) scripting languages have mutually exclusive benefits with 
> systems languages. I disagree on both counts, and large parts 
> of D's design disagree as well.
>
> Andrei

Tiny bit wrong - they are not exactly mutually exclusive. But 
when support for fluid style comes in conflict with reasoning 
about the code, scripting languages and system ones should make 
different choices. Those conflicts does not happen that often 
though and D is very proof of it, no doubt.