Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 07:44:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/26/2017 4:18 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> All of which brings us full circle: when it comes to 
>> programming
>> languages and software development, it is all about advocacy,
>> prejudice, and belief, there is very, very little science 
>> happening –
>> and most of the science that is happening is in the psychology 
>> of
>> programming, about which most developers of programming 
>> languages know
>> nothing.
>
> If you're hinting that I know nothing about the topic, you're 
> mistaken :-)
>
> A fair amount of D's design is based on psychology.

I'd love to hear more about this sometime.  I think that's what 
people who assess languages based on checklists miss - it's the 
gestalt of the features and how they are organised and the 
consequence of this for the pattern of the code as it emerges, 
rather than particular tickbox features that's appealing.  (I 
agree with code phantom that an adaptation to how people chunk is 
one of those benefits).