On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 14:38:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 09:37:55AM +0000, Chris via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
3. moving the goal posts all the time and forcing you into a
new paradigm every 1 1/2 years (first it was "ranges", then
"templates" and now it's "functional", wait OOP will come back
one day).
[...]
Wait, what? Since when has this ever been a "choose one
paradigm among many" deal? Templates are what enables
range-based idioms to succeed, and ranges are what makes it
possible to write functional-like code in D. Since when have
they become mutually exclusive?!
T
I wasn't talking about that, but about the fact that users are
slowly but surely nudged into a certain direction. And yes, D was
advertised as a "no ideology language".
