Negative

[ianc]

(Question: What was the "trigger" that made people start
>adopting Java for projects?)
>
>Kevin
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>

About 1996 the web and serverside programming took off. The options were:
- c++ - complicated and not fast enough turn around time for average users.
- visual basic - big problems with vb runtime on the server and windows only.
- scripting languages
- perl - complex for prog in the large
- php - too simple for prog in the large
- others - not mature enough
- delphi - excellent but owned by borland
- java - originally for applets at which it proved to be fairly useless - found
a niche on the server by default. The prog model was simple and the package and
jar features enabled prog in the large.

The things i like a about D are:
- makes the same trades offs as delphi
- fast compiled language without pointers being so "in your face". 
- stucts on the stack, objects on the heap 
- parameter passing to functions does not require pointers
- has a standards based scripting language - DMDScript/ECMAScript - which is
written in D.
- generic/templates 
Pity it was not available a few years ago.