On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, ixid wrote:
Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though
frankly the anti-groups opinions feel more like attachment to
the status quo than something that's evidently and demonstrably
superior.
I think that Python has syntax evidently and demonstrably
superior to D. Why not Python?
It seems a pity that D is achieving such power and elegance in
some areas while failing to take on some of the syntactic
beauty that is within reach. The ultimate language would look
something like D crossed with Go in my eyes. It would be
interesting if someone were able to make a D subset that showed
what it could look like. There is significant value to being
easy to read and write, making the language naturally more
appealing for users just as speed makes applications much more
attractive to users.
There won't be an ultimate language - ever. People haven't
settled up even on tabs vs spaces or braces issues yet.
Please keep in mind that every change made to the langage has
costs that have to be paid for the benefits. Sometimes costs are
not worth paying for the potential benefits. Status quo has this
wonderful feature - it has 0 cost, so the benefit/cost ratio
approaches infinity :).
Also, i don't know what's wrong with parens - 2 additional
keystrokes? I didn't see a for loop i a long time - ranges +
foreach are everywhere. And foreach is 4 chars more to type than
for :P.
