Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:44:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > I know nothing about Alice.
You SHOULD probably study the ML family of languages a bit more closely. It feels like we're having a conversation with a dinosaur. After all, in the functional programming world, ML languages are the closest competitor of D. Why? Both try to be safe, modular, strict (= not lazy by default), functional, garbage collected, often compile to native code, and have an expressive static type system with inference. Alice is the Alice ML dialect, http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/