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Tony tonytech08 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 20:39:20 PST 2008


"BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:78ccfa2d35a6d8cb19421c2c1a78 at news.digitalmars.com...
> 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,

That begs the question: Is it viable if no one will underwrite it?

Tony 





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