Is D still alive?

[Roman Ivanov]

== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
> On 1/27/11 8:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> > I think one of the reasons DbC has not paid off is it still requires a
> > significant investment of effort by the programmer. It's too easy to not
> > bother.
> One issue with DbC is that its only significant advantage is its
> interplay with inheritance. Otherwise, scope() in conjunction with
> assert works with less syntactic overhead. So DbC tends to shine with
> large and deep hierarchies... but large and deep hierarchies are not
> that a la mode anymore.

DbC opens many interesting possibilities if it's supported by tools other than
just the compiler. MS has included it in .NET 4.0:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/