Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:26:51 UTC, RBfromME wrote:
> I'm a newbie to programming and have been looking into the D 
> lang as a general purposing language to learn, yet the D 
> overview indicates that java would be a better language to 
> learn for your first programming language. Why?  Looks like D 
> is easier than Java...

The Overview page is ancient and needs to be rewritten. The 
included example sieve program reflects this. It's almost C 
(you'd only need to make minor changes to 4 of the lines to make 
it build with gcc). I'd agree that C probably isn't a good first 
language. The overview also suggests learning BASIC first which 
also shows just how old the Overview is (where do you even get a 
BASIC compiler these days?).

There are easier languages but modern, idiomatic D is perfectly 
approachable for beginners in my opinion.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13624