Spreading the word about D

[bearophile]

Yigal Chripun:
> A programmer friend of mine switched from Ruby to Python even though he
> thinks (like me) that the Ruby language has a the superior syntax and is
> better designed (passing the this pointer manually, wtf?)

This FAQ point may be enough to explain the situation:
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general/#why-must-self-be-used-explicitly-in-method-definitions-and-calls

Bye,
bearophile