Yes or No Options

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 14:20:41 UTC, Alex wrote:
> My father owns a small software company, specialized in market 
> data products.
>
> www.bccgi.com (in case anyone is interested)
>
> So programming was basically around all my life.
>
> I do a small job in his company and my next task was to learn 
> D. There are two trainees and the three of us have to learn D. 
> Ofc the two trainees have to learn other languages as well.
>
> My dad said the reason why we learn this language is that he 
> personally finds it to be a very intuitive language that 
> produces machine code. If he just wanted us to teach 
> programming he said he'd just told us to learn C#.
> In addition to that he wants to keep up and always have new 
> languages and features in the company (only 8 people). And 
> since we have experts for almost any language here but not a 
> single one for D, it was time for someone to start!
>
> Once I started I found it to be really interesting and 
> challenging plus I like solving problems.
>
>
> Thank you for being so nice! I have seen very few communities 
> where beginners are welcomed so well!

Very interesting indeed! Care to write an article about it one 
day? "Learning D as an absolute beginner" or something like that. 
I wonder, is your father's company listed among those using D? I 
think there's a list somewhere on Wiki, if not we should have one 
:-)