On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 13:23:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
As far as I understand this presupposes (a) a fluid style of
programming is associated exclusively with scripting languages,
(b) scripting languages have mutually exclusive benefits with
systems languages. I disagree on both counts, and large parts
of D's design disagree as well.
Andrei
Tiny bit wrong - they are not exactly mutually exclusive. But
when support for fluid style comes in conflict with reasoning
about the code, scripting languages and system ones should make
different choices. Those conflicts does not happen that often
though and D is very proof of it, no doubt.
