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Reply to dsimcha,

> == Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
> 
>> D is a fringe language, and it's not an easy one (system language and
>> all that),
>> 
> so there's never shortage of unusual people in this newsgroup :-)
> 
>> Java groups are so boooring compared to this one :-)
>> Bear hugs,
>> bearophile
> Do people seriously consider D a "difficult" language?  Given that it
> has garbage collection out of the box, builtin arrays, etc. I would
> have guessed that most people only consider it to be of moderate
> difficulty.  Yes, you *can* do down-and-dirty programming with
> pointers, manual memory management, etc. in it, but you don't *have
> to* unless the nature of your problem domain would require it no
> matter what the language.
> 

Compared to C or C++ it's down right easy, but that's kind of like saying 
climbing K2 is easy compared to going to the moon. (I wonder what more cash 
has been spent on, the Apollo project or C++ IDEs?)