A summary of D's design principles

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 18 September 2010 11:43:36 Walter Bright wrote:
> >> Basic is famous in that its charter specifically was for
> >> non-programmers. Cobol was designed for managers to be able to
> >> understand the code, not to write it (a slightly different aim).
> > 
> > Both Basic and Cobol are dead outside some legacy projects.
> 
> True, but irrelevant to my point. I see that nobody understood my point at
> all.

I do! You're talking about the purposes behind the design of a language, and 
what it was designed for. What that language has later been used for is an 
entirely separate issue.

- Jonathan M Davis