On 09/17/2010 05:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
FWIW, if you're picking up one of the most used languages out there,
their list won't differ that much:
Exactly. Much of that can be summed up as D being intended for
professional production use, rather than:
1. a teaching tool (Pascal)
2. a research project (Haskell)
3. being focussed on solving one particular problem (Erlang)
4. designed to promote a related product (Flash)
5. designed for kids (Logo)
6. designed for non-programmers (Basic)
7. one paradigm to rule them all (Smalltalk)
8. gee, math is hard (Java)
9. implementing skynet (Lisp)
Don't forget about this:
10. Creating the universe (Lisp...no, wait, Perl)
http://xkcd.com/224/
Casey
