The Next Big Language

[Alexander Pánek]

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
> Steve Yegge's latest article has a ratter nice quote about D:
> 
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
> 
> "D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. 
> However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected 
> (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is 
> now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one 
> hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his 
> language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than 
> C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon 
> just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project."

This article is ooolde. :)