Jonathan M Davis wrote:
He seems to particularly dislike function overloading which is not only part of D but pretty integral to object-oriented programming in general, so my guess is that he wouldn't be all that enthused with any object-oriented language. At minimium, it would have to give him something that he thought was definitely worth the extra cost of dealing with function overloading. While D certainly improves greatly on C++ (including in how it deals with function overloading), it's close enough to C++ that I suspect that he wouldn't like it either. But of course, he'd have to actually look at D and then tell us what he thought for us to know for sure.
I don't expect him to switch to anything. When you've built up such a store in one language, it would take an incredible push to change.
Nevertheless, D has some features, such as transitive immutability and purity, scope guard and memory safety, which are a nice fit for his style of programming.
What would be more likely is D features moving into C.
