A summary of D's design principles

[retard]

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