Justin Johansson: > This question is a play on the eternal question > "is mathematics discovery or invention?"
I have seen nothing useful or interesting come out of this discussion, so this topic has lost most of the interest for me. > In the context of the D PL, where does D(version n) lie in the continuum > between discovery and invention. Often the less axioms and building blocks are necessary to design your language, the more it seems discovered. So something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus or even the core of Lisp look more like discoveries to me. While D2 is mostly a large aggregate of historical accidents, so I put it quite more toward the engineering side of the line :-) Bye, bearophile
