A summary of D's design principles

[Jesse Phillips]

Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:36:32 -0400, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > That's pretty awesome. You have maybe 0.001% of the libraries directly
> > available, a buggy compiler, no 64-bit support, no formal spec etc. etc.
> > And still you get about 70% of the productivity. And people say Python is
> > maybe the most productive general purpose language out there. That's just
> > incredible. My guess is, when D 2.0 is finally production ready, you're
> > at least 100 times more productive than with Python. You can write 100000
> > lines of code per day.
> 
> And you are still posting on this NG because...?
> 
> -Steve

Obviously he is following D2 for when it becomes production ready and he can be 100 times more productive then he would be in Python. Maybe he was trying to be sarcastic, but I've seen retard as one very critical of D with the desire for it to realize its goals.

D has had many set backs. And has made great strides. I think the criticisms brought to the NG are usually valid, though may not may not help to resolve them. But when we start praising D it can be good to keep in mind the issues that do exist; even if only a perception by those not using the language.