Import concerns revisited

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> Oh for Bob's sake ... you mean the primary purpose of D is to write 
>> sample programs and examples? How did I miss that!!?? I thought it was 
>> to be a real language to write commercial applications with rather 
>> than an educational tool/toy. Sorry I misunderstood.
> 
> I didn't mean it's useful to make D a language to teach people about 
> programming. I meant it's useful for teaching D to people.
> 
> It's not always true, but languages that are less wordy in their example 
> code tend to be picked up faster. People's first projects in D aren't 
> going to be large, complex, professional products. They'll want to just 
> try it out on something simple. That bar should be as low as reasonable.

Really, how about Java? It is quite wordy from example programs to even 
the large projects, yet it has been thoroughly successful. D should be 
designed for mid and large projects, not small, simple ones.

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D