John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 12:27:56 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 12:14:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 12:02:29 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>> I'm waiting for Carmack to adopt D already. Barring some 
>>> implementation details (GC issues, shared libraries, bla bla) 
>>> it's pretty much the perfect language for what he wants to 
>>> do. (Fast and functional in parts.) Plus, if anyone could 
>>> work around issues or figure out how to do really cool things 
>>> with D, it would be Carmack.
>>
>> He is familiar with D and has shown appreciation for D `pure` 
>> functions in his twitter posts.
>
> Link to post? Sorry, but what does 'pure' mean in this content? 
> Does it's mean good or bad?

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/173111220092682240

http://dlang.org/function.html#pure-functions