On Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 18:06:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php
Anything John writes is well worth reading, this article
included. He includes as shout out to D!
"It seems like there is a sound case for a pure keyword in
future C/C++ standards. There are close parallels with const –
an optional qualifier that allows compile time checking of
programmer intention and will never hurt, and could often help,
code generation. The D programming language does offer a pure
keyword. Note their distinction between weak and strong purity
– you need to also have const input references and pointers to
be strongly pure."
On reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2meuco/john_carmack_on_functional_style_in_c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614253
if I knew this article is new and valuble to the D guys I had
posted it myself. :) I read it a while ago and was re-posted on
reddit more than twice (at least, I can remember). It's really
worth reading.
