Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.103.1275615255.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>I recently rewrote a huge PHP application in D2. It isn't a completely
> fair comparison, since the PHP was written by, well to be polite, PHP
> "programmers", but the results were pretty astounding.
>
> 90% reduction in lines of code [!], 200% improvement in speed under
> heavy load (only 50% improvement under light load, still good, but not
> as good), and the code is actually maintainable! Also, the original
> took about a year for the first team to write. My D rewrite took 6
> weeks. Oh yeah, and the PHP is riddled with security holes. Not so
> much with the D.
>
> The best part about the speed is that it is just running as plain old
> CGI and my code does a lot of inefficient looping through XML. I could
> probably double the speed again by improving that.
>

Comparing D to PHP is like comparing a 747 to the Hindenburg. :)