"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:j300i9$2io2$1...@digitalmars.com... > Paulo Pinto: > >> - the language is still not mature - Andrei's book still does not fully >> replace the language and >> when one browses the mailing lists there are still quite a few features >> being discussed, not clear >> enough what the direction ought to be. > > It's the other way round. Those discussions are a sign of good health for > any language, they are necessary. > Every language actively used has similar discussions, even Fortran and > Ada. See as example: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/
In Python's case ideas which end up in PEPs. > > >> And the comment about F# is spot on. It is easier to get a client >> approval >> to use F#, Scala, Clojure >> even Haskell on a new project than D, because there are quite a few big >> companies/projects using them. > > Haskell was created as "laboratory language", and today it has more design > discussions than D still :-) > > Bye, > bearophile True, but if I mention Haskell-98 or Haskell-2010, I am sure that there are compilers on the wild that support such standard. While D has a semi-official standard, Andrei's book, that does not map to any existing compiler. You don't need to convice me, I know the benefits of D. You need however to convince people that come to D forums and leave conviced that the language is not mature enough for what they want to use it. -- Paulo