GSoC Mentor Summit Observations and D Marketing

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Of course, D was built from C++'s merits and demerits, but it's not a
C++ done right any more. D can do much more, then C++ can. D was a C++
done right in the past maybe.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> On 25.10.2011 11:40, bearophile wrote:
>>
>> Gor Gyolchanyan:
>>
>>> D doesn't have a religion. D is an atheistic language.
>>
>> I doubt this. There was even an attempt to write a D Zen.
>
> That was by you, though, wasn't it? <g>
> OTOH I agree that it's got an underlying philosophy. It was clearly
> motivated by a love/hate relationship with C++.
> "C++ done right" is still not too far wrong, although it seems that when you
> do C++ correctly, it looks like some other languages as well...
>