What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:35:34 +0200, Lutger Blijdestijn
> <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty happy that my Fedora repositories are just a handful, most of
>> which are setup out of the box. It's a big time saver, one of it's best
>> features. I would use / evaluate much less software if I had to read
>> instructions and download each package manually.
> 
> I don't see how this relates to code libraries. Distribution repositories
> simply repackage and distribute software others have written. Having
> something like that for D is unrealistic.

Why? It works quite well for Ruby as well as other languages.