Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?)

[Caligo]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> Hmm, from that I get the impression that Linus is basically just like the
>> old Java-evangelists except instead of OO being his silver bullet, it's
>> zero-abstraction. I'm almost suprised he allows things like functions, or
>> anything other than Asm for that matter, or cares about portability. I
>> really doubt he'd like D. Maybe he'd dislike parts of it less than C++, but
>> that's probably about it.
>>
>
> Yeah, I don't think Linus would find D appealing.
>

So why is D being advertised as a systems programming language?  By saying
Linus would not find D appealing you are basically saying kernel developers
would not find it appealing.
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