Website message overhaul
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Tue Nov 15 12:11:36 PST 2011
"Peter Alexander" <peter.alexander.au at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:j9uftl$v0q$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 15/11/11 7:30 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 05:13 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>>> He also said: "+1. Gets us rid of the buzzy 'Multi-paradigm' in the
>>> title too." He's obviously against it, but was willing to let it slide.
>>>
>>
>> Well, I am not strictly against it. It is as I wrote in that other post,
>> if we can find a better, maybe more discriminating, term, that would be
>> nice. I like the 'modelling power' proposal too.
>
> To me, multi-paradigm is another way of saying "not dogmatic", i.e. you
> aren't forced into a single paradigm.
>
> Perhaps a better way to say it would simply be "Pragmatic"?
>
> I think the fact that D's development is based on years of experience
> rather than academic ideals, like orthogonality, is very much understated
> on the new page.
"Pragmatic" is always the term I think of as a one-word description of D.
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