Pragmatic D Tutorial

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On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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.

Too early for more publicity, I think.

You guys have convinced me about that C++ reference. D should not 
be defined in terms of another language.