Re: [MLUG] D language

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 6/29/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I hadn't heard of D until I received the message below.  Any of you guys
> using it yet?

I had heard of it, and I think it would have been wonderful if we had
had this to mess with rather than C. The problem, of course, is that
we didn't, and by giving up source code compatibility with C, D has
this weird feature of being really C-like, but not quite C. And I have
no idea why they basically kept the dorky declaration syntax.

So, once again, D looks like a pretty cool language, like Icon, Pike,
limbo, Sather, and a bunch of others. I think the problem with most of
these things is that they are certainly way cool, but they either
aren't different enough (in niche or style) or popular enough to hit
the threshold they would need to displace the Big 4 (which are
Fortran, C, C++ and Java). I think the ones most likely to do so are
higher performance versions of some scripting languages, or something
like O'Caml, which is mathematically neat but also has excellent
performance.

Also, unless you're doing heavy numeric lifting or something, a lot of
the time even something with performance as punky as python, perl, or
ruby is just fine performance wise. So it goes...

jking

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