On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 04:13:42 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:40:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
The saying goes, "you can't make a bucket of yogurt without a
spoonful of rennet". The pattern of resetting customer code
into the next version must end. It's the one thing that both
current and future users want: a pattern of stability and
reliability.
Doesn't this sort of seal the language's fate in the long run,
though? Eventually, new programming languages will appear
which will learn from D's mistakes, and no new projects will
be written in D.
Wasn't it here that I heard that a language which doesn't
evolve is a dead language?
IMO, one of the reasons D exists is all the historical baggage
C/C++ chose to carry instead of evolving.
I would say to ignore as well, given that Modula-2 was created in
1978 just as an example of better alternatives.
