On 07/14/2012 05:28 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Timon Gehr <timon.g...@gmx.ch <mailto:timon.g...@gmx.ch>> wrote:On 07/14/2012 04:44 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen <a...@lycus.org <mailto:a...@lycus.org> <mailto:a...@lycus.org <mailto:a...@lycus.org>>> wrote: On 14-07-2012 12:48, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: I just got an amazing thought. If we end up getting a D front-end in D, I think it would be possible to make the back-end in the same space as the code being compiled. This means, having the back-end as a library solution. This would automatically provide 100% compile-time code introspection. This is just a thought. Not a proposal or anything. What do you guys think? -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan. I can't tell if you're advocating writing a back end in D as well. If you are, I am strongly against this. There's a reason it has taken 10 years for LLVM to get where it is, and it's still far from complete. We have better things to do with development of D than reinventing the wheel. -- Alex Rønne Petersen a...@lycus.org <mailto:a...@lycus.org> <mailto:a...@lycus.org <mailto:a...@lycus.org>> http://lycus.org I didn't expect D to have it. D follows tons of anti-patterns, that other languages have followed. It's yet another language with yet another set of insignificant changes. It IS the best one of all, but it's not even close to being at least minimally useful for a really big task. Big words. [snip.] Big words? Some languages are pretty much useless for generic type-agnostic code. They either limit to compile-time templates (eliminating polymorphism)
I take that to mean C++ or D. I concur that parametric polymorphism is handy to have.
or just refuse to support it. Other languages are obsessed with dynamic typing (like Python), which eliminate modeling power.
I don't see how that would eliminate modeling power (on the contrary). What it constrains is static checking and runtime performance.
And where is the progress here? Same semi-useful type system as C++ with a few sprinkles on it.
I was not claiming anything else. There were unsupported claims that D is the best programming language of all and useless for a really big task.
