No D in Great Computer Language Shootout?

[Jesse Phillips]

Brad Roberts Wrote:

> This community has a lot of bad habits.  The particularly dangerous one 
> demonstrated well in this thread is that of making assumptions about 
> intent.  D isn't listed in the shootout, it once was.  We don't know the 
> facts about why so we like to make the up.  Its human.  But it's really 
> harmful.
> 
> Another really good example:  Silence on a top tends to be equated with 
> rejection, especially when it comes to why whatever it was hasn't been 
> implemented yet.  The majority of the time that's not the reason for the 
> silence.. it's merely a matter of 'haven't gotten to it yet' or 'didn't 
> see it amongst the hundreds of other things'.
> 
> Later,
> Brad
> 

The comment I made, I had talked to the author of the site and the reasons for not having D were not consistent with having Go on there.

And I do believe someone did have communication with the Shootout maintainer and the reason given was "too similar to C" which is also not consistent considering the choices of languages which it does include.

So I think it is safe to ponder on whether a bias is playing a role in these decisions.