Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:52:14 +0000
MachineCode via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com>
wrote:

> I don't understand. If at least it were C but java? why not D 
> itself?
C is *awful* as "beginner's language". never ever let people start with
C if you don't hate 'em.

as for D... current version of D can be used, but with some
precautions. we now have excellent book by Ali. (it's great, really! i
believe that it must be featured on the front dlang.org page!) but java
has alot more books and tutorials.

not that D is bad for beginners, it's just has a smaller userbase. and
all that things with "classes are reference types and structs are not",
"empty array is not empty array but is empty array" and so on D may be
confusing a little. it's good to have some CS background to understood
that things.

just my cent and cent.
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