Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

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On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:42:21 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 10/16/2014 03:26 PM, 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...
>
> Here:
>
>   http://dlang.org/overview.html
>
> "As a first programming language - Basic or Java is more 
> suitable for beginners."
>
> I say, just ignore that comment. :) We should open a bug report 
> for that page.
>
> I had great fun writing a programming book for complete 
> beginners and found it very easy to use D for that purpose:
>
>   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/
>
> Ali

I don't understand. If at least it were C but java? why not D 
itself?