Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jun 29 11:10:39 PDT 2011


On 6/29/2011 6:37 AM, Chris Molozian wrote:
> Ok, Ddoc is great at writing D documentation, that's what it was designed for.
> Why use a tool designed for code documentation as a web templating language?
> Aren't we (as programmers) always saying use the right tool for the right job...
>
> I understand Ddoc's advantages <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ddoc.html> now.
> No-one is saying Ddoc is hard to learn (at least I'm not saying that) but with
> so many tools, languages and frameworks to learn these days should it be
> necessary to know it when you're a D enthusiast that wants to contribute a HTML
> tutorial on d-programming-language.org.

You're going to have to learn some sort of system in order to work on 
documentation. Ddoc takes about 10 minutes to learn. I mean, $(B bold this 
text). How hard can that be?


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