D and the world

[Walter Bright]

0ffh wrote:
> David B. Held wrote:
>> world, even though Java has much better tool support and a vast army 
>> of programmers.
> 
> Of which I suppose > 1/3 would not be able to handle the complexity
> of C++ even if they tried. That`s another crack where D might come in.

C++ template metaprogramming is simply unusable for most programmers, 
and even for the most dedicated, it is impossible to get it to do more 
than fairly simple things.

I aim to change that with D - metaprogramming should be as simple and 
natural as writing a function is.