Obama endorses D

[some lurker]

dsimcha Wrote:

> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> > Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.
> > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html
> 
> This one makes me laugh especially because there's actually an R programming
> language that I occasionally have to use, and I generally hate it.  It's basically
> a domain specific language for statistics and not well-known outside the
> statistics community.
> 
> The biggest problem with it is poor documentation of basic things like builtin
> data structures.  D's documentation looks great in comparison.  The other one is
> that it's too high-level, domain specific and slow (even compared to other
> interpreted languages) to be easy to think of as a "real" programming language.
> At the same time it's too low-level and lacking in simple (i.e. GUI or single
> command) ways to do simple things to be easy to think of as a plain old
> application.  Basically, you have to program to use it, but when you try, if
> you're used to "real" languages you feel like you're programming with 8 of your
> fingers crushed.

Sounds a lot like matlab.