Why all the D hate?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message 
news:i51963$v0k$3 at digitalmars.com...
>
> I can find 100 other commercial C# coders in just a few
> days.

Now, see that's something that always bugs the hell out of me. Any 
programmer who can code in, say imperative or OO style in one language and 
*can't* pick up another imperative or OO language with ease is incompetent. 
Period. But no one outside of (real) programmers ever seems to realize that. 
(One of the reasons I despise anyone who works anywhere near HR.)

I don't always agree with Joel Spolsky (though I often do), but one thing I 
*absolutely* agree with him on is this:

"The recruiters-who-use-grep, by the way, are ridiculed here, and for good 
reason. I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C pointers 
who can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code than people 
with five years of experience in Java, but try explaining that to the 
average HR drone."

- The Perils of JavaSchools: 
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html

Incidentally, that's also why I think all of those managers out there who 
choose PHP because "there are a lot of PHP programmers" are complete fucking 
morons.