On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 22:07:00 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18r7zk/a_mathematician_looks_at_d/
No "REPL", I guess we are rubbish?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop says almost ALL
languages one way or another have it, mentions c/c++... a sick
joke to someone who has C++ background and learning CL.
Language wars are over and substance is not the victor, it
doesn't mean anything anymore, everything has FP, OOP, GUI, REPL,
LC, RP, OSD... and what have you.
It is like all computer industry is swarmed by marketing and no
actual programmer/scientist left. REPL in CL is "live coding",
not a language feature from future, something already there for
many decades. You have an application *running* you change
something, you hit a button and *instantly* you have the result
right there in front of you.
If you don't have a REPL (and many other features probably only
available to lisp), yes you are rubbish if you are a dynamic
language. D's strength is templates, static typing and needs
focus on that.
