D, Java? To D or not to D?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright escribió:
>> Waldemar wrote:
>>> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound at digitalmars.com)'s article
>>>> BCS wrote:
>>>>> D is alos ~7 years old, is at V1.00 and is being develuped by one man
>>>>> with gobs of user input and AFAIN not a lot of funding. It is 
>>>>> useful for
>>>>> practically anything.
>>>> D's funding: $0
>>>> D's paid staff: 0
>>>> D's marketing budget: $0
>>>> <g>
>>>
>>> How did Guido do it?
>>
>> I don't know (I don't know anything about the history of Python).
> 
> Python was a good language, I took more than 10 years (or more) to 
> spread out because of the lack of marketing (and the lack of internet 
> popularity, not so many people had an internet connection back then). 
> Same for Ruby (it's from 1995 but I'm sure you hear about it a couple of 
> years ago because of RoR). It only took time, I guess.
> 

Hum, interesting, I didn't know those languages (Ruby and Python) had 
that age, they were older than I thought. If we extrapolate that 10 
years maturing time to D, then D will hit mainstream in about 3 years. I 
would say its a sound prediction to make,  let's see how it turns out.


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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