On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, bearophile <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > Haskell is one of the most beautiful languages. I wish I had discovered it sooner.
