A summary of D's design principles

[Walter Bright]

Justin Johansson wrote:
> Some of these features you mention are very worthwhile but I mean that
> that D does not offer any better OOP system amongst its contemporary
> rivals.
> 
> To be well read on the subject of OOP models I can recommend this link
> to a well-articulated paper by Bertrand Meyer:
> 
> http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/computer/taxonomy.pdf

The article was written in 1996.

It's just a taxonomy. Describing various inheritance schemes is not enough to 
argue for their adoption. One must show that it neatly solves significant 
problems that other schemes do not or can not.

Meyer's ideas have consistently failed to gain any traction. I don't know why.