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[Christopher Wright]

dsimcha wrote:
> == 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.

It's a systems language, it has to be difficult. I need a virtual 
machine with a billion dollars behind it to feel safe.

On a more serious note, the standard library and available IDEs often 
have more to do with ease of use of a language than the language itself 
(assuming the language is reasonable).