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Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 12 14:30:01 PDT 2014


On 7/12/14, 12:54 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 16:38:35 UTC, Russel Winder via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 15:41 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>>> Sorry but I am tired of endless appeal to history / usage - by this
>>> logic Java and PHP are very good languages full of wisdom. And if
>>> someone thinks so we will have a hard time agreeing about anything.
>>
>> Why are you tired of this? History is extremely useful for learning and
>> moving forward.
>
> Because history is never as simple as those referring to it want it to
> be. Connecting some facts and assuming tight relation between those is
> annoyingly common fallacy.

I agree. Adoption of programming languages is a complex phenomenon and 
reducing its analysis to "D must do this one thing to be successful" is 
rather simplistic.

Andrei



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