On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 02:59:42AM +0000, Nobody via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 00:14:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 7/8/2016 2:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Feel free to post a counterexample. All you need is one! > > > > Perl 6.
Are you serious? Perl is the *prime* example of "unprincipled and complex". Larry Wall himself said (in print, no less): English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess, though in the nicest of all possible ways. -- Larry Wall T -- Being able to learn is a great learning; being able to unlearn is a greater learning.