On 03/25/2010 01:08 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
There are thousands of languages out there. If I did due diligence researching them all, I'd never finish, as new languages get created faster than anyone could ever study them. At some point, you've gotta pick and choose what you're going to look at in depth. Each language family is based on a core set of principles that get carried from one version to the next. Pascal's core set is unbearably restrictive to me. Sure, a lot of people strongly disagree, and that's fair, it is subjective, after all. Furthermore, like I said, anyone can propose features from any language they feel would make a good fit for D. None will be automatically rejected just because it came from a Pascal family language.
What do you think of Erlang's bit syntax if you've looked at it, or could you if you haven't?
Beyond the syntax, which is totally incompatible with D, I think it's pretty nifty and would be a sweet thing to have as a library template at the least.
