What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/18/11 6:36 AM, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
> 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.

Package management something we really need to figure out for D. 
Question is, do we have an expert on board (apt-get architecture, cpan, 
rubygems...)?

Andrei