• bcs (3/3) Oct 12 2011 http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html
• Walter Bright (3/6) Oct 12 2011 There'd be no progress in programming languages if people paid attention...
• bcs (5/13) Oct 12 2011 To make progress, you need to be insightful enough to get the point,
• Nick Sabalausky (3/6) Oct 12 2011 That's absolutely hilarious, I loved that! :)
• bearophile (20/21) Oct 13 2011 There is a derived site that generates the rant for you:

bcs <bcs example.com> writes:

http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

By my count, there is only 17 reasons D "will not work".

Not bad considering every language out will hit a few of those points.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 10/12/2011 10:06 AM, bcs wrote:
 http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

 By my count, there is only 17 reasons D "will not work".

 Not bad considering every language out will hit a few of those points.

There'd be no progress in programming languages if people paid attention to 
those things :-)

bcs <bcs example.com> writes:

On 10/12/2011 11:19 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 10/12/2011 10:06 AM, bcs wrote:
 http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

 By my count, there is only 17 reasons D "will not work".

 Not bad considering every language out will hit a few of those points.

 There'd be no progress in programming languages if people paid attention
 to those things :-)

To make progress, you need to be insightful enough to get the point, 
smart enough to know that it's true and crazy enough to ignore it all.

Or to put it another way, every programming language ever created is a 
total failure for at least one of those reasons.

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"bcs" <bcs example.com> wrote in message 
news:j74hek$u4b$1 digitalmars.com...
 http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

 By my count, there is only 17 reasons D "will not work".

 Not bad considering every language out will hit a few of those points.

That's absolutely hilarious, I loved that! :)

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

bcs:

 http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

There is a derived site that generates the rant for you:
http://mashedtaters.net/var/language_checklist.php

Below there is a possible result about D :-)

Bye,
bearophile

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You appear to be advocating a new "multi-paradigm" and statically-typed
programming language.  Your language will not work.  Here is why it will not
work.

You appear to believe that that garbage collection is free, that nobody really
needs a REPL, that convincing programmers to adopt a new language will be easy
and that specifying behaviors as "undefined" means that programmers won't rely
on them.

Unfortunately, your language has implicit type conversion, has goto, lacks
multiple inheritance, lacks algebraic datatypes, lacks covariant array typing,
lacks monads, lacks dependent types, lacks call-by-name and lacks call-cc.

The following philosophical objections apply:
 * The most significant program written in your language isn't even its own
compiler
 * Your type system is unsound
 * The name of your language makes it impossible to find on Google
 * Compiled languages will never be "extensible"

Additionally, your marketing has the following problems:
 * Noone really believes that your language is faster than C.

Taking the wider ecosystem into account, I would like to note that we already
have an unsafe imperative language and you have reinvented C++ but worse.

In conclusion, I think you have some interesting ideas, but this won't fly.
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