On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 07:09:39 UTC, so wrote:
Hello,
Not related to D but this is a community which i can find at
least a few objective person. I want to invest some "quality"
time on a dynamic language but i am not sure which one. Would
you please suggest one?
To give you an idea what i am after:
Of all one-liners i have heard only one gets me.
"The programmable programming language". Is it true? If so Lisp
will be my first choice.
Thanks.
Not really a help to you, but I honestly have no idea why people
*want* to use dynamic programming languages. There is very little
benefit I see in having your core object structure be complete
dynamic. I remember watching this Google tech talk awhile ago,
about V8 and improving Javascript performance. At one point, the
speaker talks about how cool Dynamic objects *can* be, but then
goes on later to say that 90% of code isn't structured that way
(and thus justifying V8's JITed hidden classes).
I think a language should be static first and dynamic second. C#
does this nicely (anonymous and dynamic types, Link, etc) and I
think D is at least partially there (in regards to dynamic
objects) with std.variant + associative arrays.
