Website message overhaul, pass 2

[Peter Alexander]

On 20/11/11 1:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, November 20, 2011 13:47:31 Peter Alexander wrote:
>> On 20/11/11 8:40 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Thanks to all who provided feedback! I read again the entire thread,
>>> then made one more pass:
>>>
>>> http://d-programming-language.org/new/
>>
>> Much better :-)
>>
>> A few comments:
>>
>> Can we please not use the term RAII? First, only C++ people know what it
>> means, and second, its expansion doesn't tell you what it does or what
>> it is used for. Just say something like "scoped deterministic memory
>> management" or something like that. I'm sure C++ people will link that
>> to RAII, and non-C++ people will have a better idea of what it means.
>
> Making it a link to wikipedia should be plenty. The C++ will know what RAII
> is, and anyone who's learning D should learn it. The combination of an
> example, the brief explanation that's there, and a link to Wikipedia should be
> plenty for people to be able to figure out what they need to know. And it _is_
> a very important feature for those who know what it means.

I just think it's a terrible acronym and that we shouldn't be promoting 
its use. What part of "resource acquisition is initialization" tells me 
that its main purpose is deterministic, scoped resource management?

They should learn the concept but not the acronym ;-)