Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[Mike James via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 08:44:00 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 01:05:37 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> Better, go with FreePascal http://www.freepascal.org/ and 
> discover all that those features that many C advocates spread 
> as being close to the machine and other C only features, aren't 
> exclusive of it.
>
> Alongside support for real modules, OO and genericity.
>
> Then with a head clean of bad C influences, jump into D.
>
>
> --
> Paulo

Don't tell him that - he may discover Freepascal/Lazarus is the 
holy grail of GUI programming and may never try D...  ;-)

-=mike=-