Paulo Pinto: > - the language is still not mature - Andrei's book still does not fully > replace the language and > when one browses the mailing lists there are still quite a few features > being discussed, not clear > enough what the direction ought to be.
It's the other way round. Those discussions are a sign of good health for any language, they are necessary. Every language actively used has similar discussions, even Fortran and Ada. See as example: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/ > And the comment about F# is spot on. It is easier to get a client approval > to use F#, Scala, Clojure > even Haskell on a new project than D, because there are quite a few big > companies/projects using them. Haskell was created as "laboratory language", and today it has more design discussions than D still :-) Bye, bearophile
