On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 06:57:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 20:24 -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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There's no doubt about it, people like simple languages. We
should very much keep that in mind when evaluating proposals
for new features.
How about lining up some features for removal.
C++, Fortran, and Java are big, complicated languages, that
keep getting
bigger and more complicated because of the obsession with
backward
compatibility. D is already a big, complicated language. If
people like
straightforward (not necessarily simple) languages, then the
inference is
quite easy.
Java big, complicated language?? :) I do not agree with that
statement at all. Java *is* there where it is because it is
SIMPLE language, and equally hated for being simple language.
We can't satisfy everybody.
D can be super-simple too - people do not have to use fancy
features of the language. I think most tutorials/articles tell
readers too much about D, and it may scare them away.
