A summary of D's design principles

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I'm glad I wasn't being totally incomprehensible!