On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 21:24:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/7/2016 5:56 PM, deadalnix wrote:
While this very true, it is clear that most D's complexity
doesn't come from
there. D's complexity come for the most part from things being
completely
unprincipled and lack of vision.
All useful computer languages are unprincipled and complex due
to a number of factors:
I think this is a very dangerous assumption. And also not true.
What is true is that it is difficult to gain traction if a
language does not look like a copy of a pre-existing and fairly
popular language.
