Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Walter Bright]

On 8/21/2013 9:50 AM, Ramon wrote:
> I am *not* against keeping an eye on performance, by no means. Looking at
> Moore's law, however, and at the kind of computing power available nowadays even
> in smartphones, not to talk about 8 and 12 core PCs, I feel that the importance
> of performance is way overestimated (possibly following a formertimes justified
> tradition).

While a 5% performance boost is not relevant for consumer apps, it can make an 
enormous difference for server side apps. For example, if you've got a $100m 
server farm, 5% means you save $5m, and server farms can be much, much bigger 
than that.