Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:isnvfi$h9$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 6/8/11 3:29 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Lars T. Kyllingstad"<public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet>  wrote in message
>> news:isn5rr$134r$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hudvd/
>>> the_go_programming_language_or_why_all_clike/
>>>
>>> The author presents a "wish list" for his perfect systems programming
>>> language, and claims that Go is the only one (somewhat) fulfilling it.
>>> With the exception of item 7, the list could well be an advertisement 
>>> for
>>> D.
>>>
>>
>> "Some of them enjoy a phase of hype, but then fade again, others stay in 
>> the
>> spheres of irrelevancy, while yet others will be ready for public
>> consumption any decade now."
>>
>> ...With "stay in the spheres of irrelevancy" linking to the D homepage.
>>
>> That annoys the hell out of me. D matches his wishlist better than Issue 
>> 9
>> does, and it's dismissed for "irrelevency"? Heck, I could actually buy 
>> that
>> if there were any actual basis at all for saying such a thing. But what
>> could even *possibly* be considered reasons for saying so? Is it
>> "irrelevent" just because it doesn't have some corporation behind it? 
>> That'd
>> be some real broken reasoning. Is it "irrelevant" because it wasn't 
>> created
>> by some guy who did something significant 40 years ago and hasn't done a
>> damn thing of note since? Hell, unless you're pretending it's 197x, 
>> Andre's
>> far more noteworthy than that Issue 9 guy. It sure as hell can't be
>> "irrelevent" for lack of use. So what else could it be besides just 
>> having
>> his head up his ass? Not that I think his head's up there. From what I 
>> read,
>> I'm convinced the real reason is just that he's far too much a fan of ad
>> hominem reasoning.
>
> You're complaining in the wrong place. What you need to do is answer on 
> reddit.
>

What, and publically make D users look like jackasses that take things too 
personally? :)