Website message overhaul

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-11-14 21:52:30 +0000, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> On 11/14/2011 11:41 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> - Convenience
>> - Power
>> - Efficiency
> 
> My problem with those three are those are the goals of every single 
> computer language ever invented. They are completely and fatuously 
> generic.

Very true. I wasn't really suggesting we use the words from this list, 
it was more an attempt at exposing how little they meant compared to 
the other triplet.


>  > - Modern convenience
> 
> "Modern" implies using the latest ideas and techniques in computer 
> languages. Modern has been used successfully in Andrei's books to 
> convey that, which is why I suggested using the word.
> 
>  > - Multi-paradigm power
> 
> Many newly-designed languages are wrapped around a single paradigm, and 
> they set a store by being so. D most assuredly and pointedly has 
> different take on that.
> 
>  > - Native efficiency
> 
> Most (nearly all?) new languages are targeted at a VM. Being native is 
> clearly a distinguishing feature of D.

Personally I rather like Modern, Multi-paradigm, and Native. It's 
convenience, power, and efficency I'd rather remove, because they are 
fatuously generic (your words) and effectively dilute what you're 
trying to convey, at least when *I* read.

Beside, it should be telling that in each of your three descriptions 
above, you talked about what it meant being modern, you talked about 
single-paradigm languages, and about being native vs. VM. Nowhere did 
you mention convenience, power, and efficiency… perhaps because those 
are too generic or too implicit to talk about.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/