python vs d

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On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 11:04:38 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> My bet is that D users will be able to produce the same sort of 
> quick-fix libraries. The newsgroups are dominated by 
> systems-type people and there is a serious emphasis on 
> super-low-cost abstractions, but in my opinion D is a more than 
> suitable language for throwing together something that just 
> "does the job", but with much more pleasant routes for later 
> optimisation than other languages.

To a certain extent, but some things are just easier in a dynamic 
language. Like reading a xml file, then decorate the nodes with 
your own class attributes an properties, transform it and dump it 
back to file.

Sure, you can do it in a stricter languge, but only if the 
library author planned for it.