The Next Big Language

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Hello Alexander,

> 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. :)
> 

Sorry, I just realized that. I followed a link from DZone and though it was 
a new one, but it was just one I hadn't read.

So what's the NBL? ECMAScript 2?