Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 04:52:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> "Prolog and other logic programming languages have not had a 
> significant impact on the computer industry in general."
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog#Limitations
>
> So, no.

That appears to be a 1995 reference from a logic programming 
languages conference. Of course logic programming has had a big 
impact on state of the art.

Prolog -> Datalog
Datalog -> magic sets
magic sets -> inference engines
inference engines  -> static analysis

And that is only a small part of it.

> I'm afraid that is seriously mistaken about C++'s influence on 
> the state of the art, in particular compile time polymorphism

Nah. You are confusing state-of-the-art with widespread system 
support.

> Also, although C++ did not invent OOP, OOP's late 1980s surge 
> in use, popularity, and yes, *influence* was due entirely to

In commercial application development sure. In terms of OOP 
principles and implementation, hell no.