anton smith wrote:
Walter Bright Wrote:
Hi Herb! It's hard to find anything truly original in language design,
somebody somewhere always did something sorta like it first somewhere
else. Most of D's features are inspired by features from a long list of
languages, some alive, some dead.
For some reason Oleg Kiselyov often finds original ideas in language design and
its usage.
I don't know enough about Haskell to comment on that. But I do know that there's
a lot of grey area between an original idea and something similar that was done
before. How different must it be before it is considered "original"?
That's one of the reasons the software patent system is busted.
There's a lot of patentable stuff in D (not just my ideas, but some ideas from
others, too), but I've chosen not to attempt to patent them.
