Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 05:50:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 02:59:42AM +0000, Nobody via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
>> Perl 6.
>
> Are you serious?  Perl is the *prime* example of "unprincipled 
> and complex".  Larry Wall himself said (in print, no less):
>
> 	English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a 
> mess,
> 	it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, 
> which
> 	we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess,
> 	though in the nicest of all possible ways. -- Larry Wall
>
>
> T

1. Perl 6 is not Perl.
2. Perl 6 is better designed language than D will ever be.
3. Perl 6 is complex, but not complicated.  I think people 
sometimes confuse the two.
4. D is a failed language, regardless of how people choose to 
categorize its attributes.