Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[maarten van damme via Digitalmars-d-learn]

While d can be complex, there's nothing preventing you from starting out
simple and not using all features at first.
I don't understand why it's not suitable for a beginner if you use this
approach...

2014-10-17 6:51 GMT+02:00 via Digitalmars-d-learn <
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com>:

> On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 01:14:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>
>> Python is probably a better first language than Java. D is a
>> little too much complex as first language.
>>
>
> The IDE support is probably a bit better with Java/C# and using a
> statically typed language as your first language has advantages, but all
> are good first languages: easy to find tutorials, easy to find educational
> example code, easy to find answers to typical beginner issues on
> Stackoverflow…
>
> I personally think Logo, Processing and Scheme would be more fun as
> learning tools, but they are throw-away languages. E.g.
> http://turtleacademy.com/programs/en http://www.processing.org/ and many
> more online programming sites.
>
>
>
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