D on hackernews

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Wed Sep 21 16:40:32 PDT 2011


On 09/22/2011 01:17 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 21.09.2011, 16:24 Uhr, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> On 9/21/11 8:52 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>> On 09/21/2011 09:37 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>>
>>>>> http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3014861
>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently we're still having a PR issue.
>>>>
>>>> I think the Wikipedia D page needs to be rewritten, leaving 80-90% of
>>>> its space to D (meaning D2).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, that is important. Wikipedia is usually the first place people go
>>> looking for information, and much of the information given there is
>>> horribly outdated/wrong and mostly only concerns.
>>
>> Agreed. Does anyone volunteer for fixing D's Wikipedia page?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Is anyone uninvolved enough to be objective and involved enough to know
> what they write?
> Timon, I think you are exaggerating a bit. It is not mostly only
> concerns, but I agree they have bold headers, and other language pages
> like Java or C++ lack this section entirely.

On 09/21/2011 04:33 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
 >> Yes, that is important. Wikipedia is usually the first place people go
 >> looking for information, and much of the information given there is
 >> horribly outdated/wrong and mostly only concerns.
 >
 > ... concerns [D1].

That was just a bad place to accidentally leave out a word. ;)
I agree that the article also contains some useful information.



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