too much sugar not good for the health

[Bruno Medeiros]

Ary Manzana wrote:
> janderson escribió:
>> Falk-Florian Henrich wrote:
>>> Am Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:16:08 -0700 schrieb janderson:
>>>
>>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> Personally I don't think D is anywhere near the threshold of having to
>>>> much.  Take a look at the most successful langugage (English), it keeps
>>>> getting bigger and bigger every day.  We just don't have enough syntax
>>>> to describe everything.
>>>
>>> Without discussing what "successful" is supposed to mean in the realm 
>>> of natural languages, I think the syntax of English is shrinking 
>>> rather than growing. Plus, today's lingua franca is a tiny subset of 
>>> English with a type discipline comparable to that of K&R C.
>>>
>>> Apart from that, I agree with you that D's syntax is a lot easier to 
>>> understand than that of C++.
>>>
>>> Falk
>>
>> By successful I mean most widely used, which is what we want D to become.
> 
> English is not succesful because of the language itself, but because of 
> other reasons (power, articles, books). Just like Java is succesful but 
> nowhere near because of the language (I guess VM, nice documentation 
> system, IDEs).
> 
> Maybe D should consider becoming succesful by other means besides of the 
> language itself? :-)
> 
> Ary

Man, I am the only programmer to actually (moderately) like the Java 
language? :P

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