Pragmatic D Tutorial

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/7/13 12:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:34:11 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> while I got a chuckle out of "D is what C++ wanted to be.", I might
>> omit this. Insulting C++ isn't likely a great way to attract the C++
>> crowd, which is one of our major target audiences.
>
> Quite the contrary, I can't really imagine many good C++ developers who
> don't insult this language on their own :) Its problems are quite
> well-known and widely accepted.
>
> Though saying that D already _is_ what C++ wanted to be is a bit
> ambitious. Probably more appropriate is to say that it was one of main
> motivations / design goals.

I agree that the definition is a tad offensive to some, and inaccurate. 
It also gratuitously frames in a limiting way D's charter itself. I 
don't think C++ has ever aimed to be a convenient language for scripts 
that build fast and run fast, for example.

OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to reddit.


Thanks,

Andrei