One more question - an untapped audience.

Tofu Ninja emmons0 at purdue.edu
Tue Feb 11 18:43:35 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 17:37:17 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 19:03:22 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>
>> I am only 20 and am still in university so I feel like I can 
>> answer this with at least my own experiences. Personally I 
>> think D would capture the attention of more young people if it 
>> was simply easier to use. The first "real" language I really 
>> got into was C#(about 5-6 years ago) and I think the main
>
> You hijacked my topic and converted it into the usual arguments 
> about lack of infrastructure for D.
>
> I'm talking about guys and girls who don't have a computer, let 
> alone C#. They just have a cheap smart phone that maybe they 
> succeeded in getting rooted. So is your answer that they should 
> just use Java?
>
> And yes, the C# library is excellent, but D is a better 
> language, and is easy to use. Get out of the wood and see the 
> trees!
>
> I'm at the other end of my life, with a long view of history. 
> We should do our bit to help to bring civilization and reason 
> (back) to the world, not just tell people 'use C#'.
>
> A more relevant criticism would be that people who only know 
> say Swahili won't be able to find out about and use D anyway - 
> Java either. Sadly my Swahili is not up to it.
>
> Sorry, but you asked for it ;=)
>
> Steve
Oh I am sorry, by developing world I thought you were talking 
about the world of developers, why are you interested in getting 
D to the developing world? Seems kinda odd...


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