A summary of D's design principles

[Jesse Phillips]

Juanjo Alvarez Wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:28:16 -0700, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> > be found to tout it, it will be ineffective. This is because 
> everyone touts 
> > their language as "more productive". People just see "more 
> productive" and their 
> > brain just skips over it without it even entering their conscious 
> thought.
> 
> Well, in this case I don't believe that D is more productive than 
> Python in the short term (it could be in the long term for big 
> codebases involving several developers). But it is almost as 
> productive while smoking it in performance and resource usage. So it 
> is more like you have the advantages of a natively compiled language 
> without many of the drawbacks.

This is exactly how it should be marketed. It has the productivity of Python, other dynamic languages, with the performance and power of a natively compiled language.