On Friday, 9 September 2016 at 13:32:16 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be giving up on D and switching to Sparrow?
Most certainly not! I don't think it has to be either D or Sparrow. There is a quote liked from one of Walter's presentation. Someone asked the question:
"What happens when the next great modelling idea comes along?" Walter: "D will absorb it" Link to the youtube vid (https://youtu.be/WKRRgcEk0wg?t=2205)
Polyglots programmers tend to be better programmers. This is not opinion, there is experimental evidence for this in the psychology of programming literature.
I certainly think that training programmers on lots of different programming languages and paradigms will produce better programmers on average. I guess the analogy is in multi-lingual language training for children. However this does not affect my original point on the overhead caused by constantly switching languages in development and the host of benefits that would come from making Sparrow's programming model work.
