London D Programmers MeetUp

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 22:28:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> 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?

I will dig his card out unless Kingsley gets there first.  (Let 
me know if so).  Laeeth