On 08/08/2010 14:31, dsimcha wrote:
I disagree completely. D is clearly designed from the "simple things should be
simple and complicated things should be possible" point of view. If it doesn't
work well for these kinds of short scripts then we've failed at making simple
things simple and we're just like every other crappy "large scale, industrial
strength" language like Java and C++ that's great for megaprojects but makes
simple things complicated.
dsimcha wrote:
"I hate Java and every programming language where a readable hello world
takes more than 3 SLOC"
That may be your preference, but other people here in the community, me
at least, very much want D to be a "large scale, industrial strength"
language that's great for megaprojects. I think that medium and large
scale projects are simply much more important and interesting than small
scale ones.
I am hoping this would become an *explicit* point of D design goals, if
it isn't already.
And I will campaign against (so to speak), people like you who think
small scale is more important. No personal animosity intended though.
Note: I am not stating that is is not possible to be good, even great,
at both things (small and medium/large scale).
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
