Walter charms the audience at Sioux

[Peter Alexander]

On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 02:23:04 UTC, F i L wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Well, since it'll be years before we even consider creating 
>> D3, we're in
>> trouble if we need D3 for D to be successful. D2 isn't 
>> perfect, but it's still
>> a very solid language and outshines more entrenched languages 
>> on a number of
>> levels. I'd expect that its lack of adoption is primarily a 
>> marketing issue.
>
> I think you misunderstand my intent. D2 will carry D to far 
> reaches, and is a very usable, and now stable language; and I 
> know D3 won't come for years. That said, there are language 
> issues that, as you put, simply can't be addressed in D2 
> because they're not worth the effort required to fix them. I 
> only meant that I think once D3 does come around, and it's 
> *perfect*, that others simply wont be able to resist it and it 
> will truly be adopted on a mass scale.

There's no such thing as a perfect language.