D vs C++11

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 3 November 2012 at 10:33:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:19:15 +0100
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
>> 
>> What I have learned in all my years of enterprise development 
>> is that all those features have zero value for business.
>> 
>> Languages get adopted because of business value, not due to 
>> the coolness of their feature set, how boring it may sell.
>> 
>> If we want to sell D to companies using C++ for years, slowly 
>> migrating to JVM, .NET worlds, or just updating their 
>> codebases to C++11, then we need to sell D's business value 
>> not feature lists.
>> 
>
> The problem with "business value" is that there's two types of 
> it:
> First there's "reality" business value which *naturally* 
> includes, among
> other things, how well it works for the people actually using 
> it. But
> then there's also "MBA/PHB" business value which *doesn't* 
> factor that
> in because...well I can't finish that sentence without delving 
> into
> rather graphic profanity, anatomical references, and
> general offensiveness to an entire profession ;)

Sadly I meant the MBA type of business value. :(