An interesting observation

[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
> 
> http://www.sysprog.net/quotcob.html
> 
> Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: 
> Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++.
> The good languages have been those that were designed for their own 
> creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. (Paul Graham)
> 
> can we add D to this list?

It's ironic that you mention that. My experience as a software engineer 
is that when I write a program that delivers what the marketing folks 
tell me people will buy, it fails. Whenever I wrote a program to please 
myself, it's been a big success. What's most interesting is that the 
latter is especially true when the marketing folks tell me that nobody 
would ever want the program I'm writing.

And yes, that applies to D, too. When I started on it, my friends and 
colleagues would all smile sadly and indulgently at my folly.

They said I should do a javascript compiler, because what the world 
needed was a fast javascript engine. So I built one, it ran twice as 
fast as jscript, and I couldn't give it away <g>.

Meanwhile, D took off.