On 9/29/2012 3:54 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
So, with this in mind, do you think these hypothetical people are all justified?
(a) [Go programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have channels.
(b) [Lisp programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have homoiconicity.
(c) [Haskell programmer]: D is rubbish because it doesn't have full type
inference.
All of those things are considered "a major thing" by their users, and many
people do find them to "make a big difference."
People can and do make those arguments and justifications.
The question is, really, how large of a class of programming problems does each
of those features address?
