On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 10:53:57 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
So, with this in mind, do you think these hypothetical people
are all justified?
(a) [Go programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
channels.
(b) [Lisp programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
homoiconicity.
(c) [Haskell programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have
full type inference.
Would you agree D would be better if it had those features?
How about we rephrase to something less inflammatory:
[Go programmer]: I prefer not to use D because it doesn't have
channels.
[Lisp programmer]: I prefer not to use D because it doesn't have
homoiconicity.
[Haskell programer]: I prefer not to use D because it doesn't
have full type inference.
Suddenly they all seem like perfectly acceptable arguments. If a
person really likes/needs a certain language feature, then surely
that is a good reason to reject a language that does not have
this feature?
Many people like generics. Go doesn't have them. So why get angry
if these people reject Go?
