London D Programmers MeetUp

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 11 14:27:52 PST 2015


On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an
> account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to
> rewrite it later in a more conventional language.  The prototype went straight
> into production, and they are happy with it.  The C interop was important for
> them to have made this possible.
>
> It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people don't by any
> means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at variance with the "I
> am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" narrative, and also
> because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave early
> adopter one wants to have.
>
> (I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as vague as
> possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might not want the details
> of what they do being public).

I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study presentation at Dconf 
2015. Can someone please forward this to him, or put him in contact with myself 
or Andrei?


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