Marketing D [ was Re: GCC 4.6 ]

[Walter Bright]

Juanjo Alvarez wrote:
> With Python what happened for some years was that some companies were 
> using it for lots of internal project, but not disclosing its use, for 
> fear that the upper management could scream, "whats that python crap! 
> That is not java! " I know because I worked on one of them (a fortune 
> 100 bank).
> The same happens with lots of other technologies inside Big Corps (MySQL 
> comes too my mind too), they are first used by programmers and people 
> that know their job in a semi stealth way and later they are accepted by 
> the people whose main job is internal company politics and can't tell 
> the difference of a ref from a pointer.
> I'm not saying this is the case with D2, I would not use it my daywork 
> production code yet (but my play project at home is already over 5000 
> lines of code and the last version of dmd fixed all the bugs I stumbled 
> on while developing it), but this is surely going to happen a lot once 
> D2 stabilizes.

I agree that the most likely route for D is in through the back door.