Slogan/catchphrase for D?

Charles noone at nowhere.com
Wed Mar 22 15:34:01 PST 2006


Maybe lead in with:

The six million dollar language.

Charles wrote:
>  > "C++ - we can rebuild it, we have the technology" - 6 million dollar 
> mannish
> 
> LOL!
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> "pragma" <pragma_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>> news:dvs65b$1dee$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>
>>> How about: D - Work smarter, not harder.
>>> ?
>>
>>
>>
>> It's too vague. Remember the Java one - "write once, run everywhere"? 
>> That was very effective. Need something like that for D.
>>
>> C++'s catchphrase was originally "C with Classes", and later "A better 
>> C."
>>
>> Andrei sent me a list of what pops in his head when he thinks about a 
>> language:
>> --------------------
>> 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."
>> -------------------------
>>
>> "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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