NWCPP january talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Janderson wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bartosz has signed me up to give a presentation at the January 
>>>> meeting of the NWCPP. http://www.nwcpp.org/
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what to talk about, though. Any particular D topics 
>>>> you'd find particularly interesting?
>>>
>>> Problems in C++ that D solves.
>>
>> A lot of people have asked me to stop talking about limitations in C++ 
>> <g> and instead concentrate on what D can do.
> 
> So don't TALK about them. Folks are sick and tired of hype and fud anyway.
> 
> Implicitly you'll address C++'s limitations anyhow, since there's 
> obviously no point in talking about D stuff where C++ works equally well.
> 
> Combine Martha Stewart and Mythbusters. Pick a programming task or a 
> small example application or algorithm, and show them that it can be 
> written easily and painlessly with D. (Something that obviously would be 
> a pain to do in C++.) BUT DON'T MENTION C++ EVEN ONCE in the presentation.
> 
> And let the audience themselves have the Aha of 'gee, i would have spent 
> three days on that in my language', which obviously is C++.

Amen brother!

Andrei