A summary of D's design principles

[retard]

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:13:54 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> On 17/09/2010 23:39, retard wrote:
>> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> retard wrote:
>>>> FWIW, if you're picking up one of the most used languages out there,
>>>> their list won't differ that much:
>>>
>>> Exactly. Much of that can be summed up as D being intended for
>>> professional production use, rather than:
>>>
>>> 1. a teaching tool (Pascal)
>>> 2. a research project (Haskell)
>>> 3. being focussed on solving one particular problem (Erlang) 4.
>>> designed to promote a related product (Flash) 5. designed for kids
>>> (Logo) 6. designed for non-programmers (Basic) 7. one paradigm to rule
>>> them all (Smalltalk) 8. gee, math is hard (Java) 9. implementing
>>> skynet (Lisp)
>>
>> A funny pic, somewhat related.. (language X, as seen by language Y
>> users)
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/1gF1j.jpg
> 
> retard, this is your best post ever! xP

That's sad to hear -- I'm conscientiously aiming for bigger and bigger 
disappointments :-)