On 09/29/2012 09:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/29/2012 3:54 AM, 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.
All of those things are considered "a major thing" by their users, and
many
people do find them to "make a big difference."
People can and do make those arguments and justifications.
The question is, really, how large of a class of programming problems
does each of those features address?
a) can be done in a library. (eg. in D, but not in Go) Therefore,
claiming that D does not have channels is moot anyway.
b), c) enable more powerful abstractions. They help all programs
if the programmer knows how to leverage them.
