On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:31 +0000, Wanderer via Digitalmars-d wrote: > It's very hard to keep up-to-date with all these successors to > Java. Every half a year a new language appears, and it's always > "better than all previous". :-(
I am not sure which languages you are thinking of here, there really are not that many languages seriously proposed in the Java-verse. cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages Of course in academia everyone involved in programming language research has to propose a couple of new languages a year to get funding. A very sad system and state of affairs. > D's const feature is nice and clear. But what made me "fall in > love" with D, is 'immutable' modifier. No inner mutable pieces > possible, no need to copy defensively (or copy at all), no risk > of data corruption, no matter how complex your data is. Very > clever idea. We definitely like immutable :-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder