On 09/14/2015 08:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 09/13/2015 10:06 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
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- language regularization
It's surprising to find these "arbitrary" language limitations.
The non-predictability of what's possible has always been a huge issue
for me with C++, i.e. you come up with an idea, spend 4 hours
implementing it only to find out that the small detail x isn't feasible.
This is the case in all powerful languages.
That's an overgeneralization.
Furthermore, having arbitrary designed-in irregularities is not
comparable to implementing a system whose emergent behavior is not
understood sufficiently well. (D is guilty of both, but the former is
much easier to fix than the latter.)
Martin Odersky told me there's a constant problem with Scala ...
Both C++ and Scala have accidentally Turing-complete type systems.
