OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[SomeDude]

On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 19:59:31 UTC, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 15:45:32 UTC, jerro wrote:
>>> if, say, GDC was granted to come back in the shootout. Given 
>>> it's now widely acknowledged (at least in the programming 
>>> communities) to be one of the most promising languages 
>>> around...
>>
>> And especially if you also consider the fact that there Clean 
>> and ATS are in the shootout and I'm guessing that very few 
>> people use those.
>
>
> See
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> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Why_did_D_leave_the_programming_language_shootout_and_will_it_return_144864.html#N144870

Still, you don't explain why you picked, say ATS, which is 
significantly more esoteric than D, and much less likely to be 
used by the community in the large. I argue that many more people 
would be interested in the performance of D.