retard wrote: > Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:05:03 +0000, BCS wrote: > >> Hello Jane, >> >>> Is D a cult? >>> >>> >> No, not yet. Walter hasn't figured out how to brain wash people over a >> newsgroup yet. However I think Andrei's working on it and Don should >> have a patch in time for TDPL going out ;b > > FWIW, I think there is a kernel of truth in the original claim. People > tend to agree evey time Walter proposes a new feature such as built-in > regexps - yes, they were removed shortly afterwards. But when bearophile > or some retard propose some features from functional languages that are > natural extensions to existing ones, everyone hates them and tells us to > go back to our ivory towers.
That's weird, I don't see this at all. Maybe you focus too much on one or two negative comments? I also don't understand that you think D designers have a bias against functional programming, especially since the majority of the features that have been implemented the last years are heavily influenced by that style of programming.
