On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 11:21:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/9/2016 7:44 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 08:39:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Seems that in order to make it useful, users had to extend
it. This
doesn't fit the criteria.
Scheme is a simple functional language which is easy to extend.
If they have to extend it, it isn't Scheme anymore.
Uh, well in that case there is no C++ at all. And we might as
well say that gdc and ldc aren't D compilers either.
The original Pascal, which you said you'd never used. I have.
I've used the subset, but not Wirth's original. Not that this is
an argument for anything.
So I don't think I agree with your definition of "useful".
Try and write a program in Wirth's Pascal that reads a
character from the keyboard.
D has no _language_ support for I/O, not sure what the point is.
What programmers think of as "intuitive" is often a
collection of
special cases.
I think I would need examples to understand what you mean here.
Dangling else is a classic.
< > for template parameters in C++.
infix notation
Ok. Those are syntactic conventions. Does not affect the language
design as such.
