On 2006-08-17, Giles Constant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 16:16, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> >> You could consider Perl. I'm decent at it, and it seems to me it can >> do everything Ion needs. If you dislike Perl that's another story, >> but if you provide a list of items Ion needs in a language I'll be >> glad to comment on each one. > > Think I've mentioned it on this list before, but D rocks: > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
It doesn't seem too bad a C derivative, but of these, Nemerle as a language (without the .BLOAT libraries) seems more interesting, thanks to its loaning from functional languages. Or did D have tagged unions/pattern matching? Surely it doesn't have type inference. -- Tuomo
