Slogan/catchphrase for D?

David L. Davis SpottedTiger at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 22 13:24:31 PST 2006


In article <dvsboj$1l3m$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>"pragma" <pragma_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>news:dvs65b$1dee$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> How about: D - Work smarter, not harder.
>> ?
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>It's too vague. Remember the Java one - "write once, run everywhere"? That 
>was very effective. Need something like that for D.
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>C++'s catchphrase was originally "C with Classes", and later "A better C."
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>Andrei sent me a list of what pops in his head when he thinks about a 
>language:
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>1. FORTRAN. "First high-level language for scientific computing"
>2. LISP. "Lambda. Garbage collection. S-expressions."
>3. C. "Portable, efficient assembler. Systems programming"
>4. C++. "Multiparadigm"
>5. Perl. "Regular expressions. String manipulation."
>6. Java. "Virtual Machine (= Write Once, ...). Safety."
>7. Smalltalk. "Pure object-oriented."
>8. Haskell. "Functional. Type inference."
>9. Eiffel. "Contracts."
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>"A better C++" - don't want to copy Bjarne
>"C++ reloaded" - too hollywood
>"C++ version 2" - <g>
>"C++ - we can rebuilt it, we have the technology" - 6 million dollar mannish
>"C++ streamlined" - ? 
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Here's a few I came up with:
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Get more from less code: "Readability, Performability, Maintainability!" (RPMs)
D makes the complex...simple.
Focus more on the end result, while writing less code to get there.

David L.

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