What Andrei Alexandrescu thinks about taste
Romanian-American computer scientist, author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language, co-developer of the D language; researcher at NVIDIA.
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1 dated position, 2009, in their own words. Our reading of what Andrei Alexandrescu has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA programming language cannot satisfy everyone and must commit to a few fundamental principles.
Their wordsA language can't possibly fulfill everyone's needs and taste at the same time as many of them are contradictory, so it must carefully commit to a few fundamental coordinates that put it on the landscape of programming languages.