Website message overhaul

Daniel Gibson metalcaedes at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 14:17:21 PST 2011


Am 15.11.2011 21:11, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "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.
>

While "pragmatic" fits D, it does not really describe features D offers, 
"multi-paradigm" is a bit more descriptive.

I still think the best description for D is "C++ done right" ;-)

Cheers,
- Daniel




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