Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/11/2015 6:48 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> You know what, if you push out the projects which are tiny utilities that solves
> real world problems, then you might get people interested.
>
> If you can solve such real world problems in 40 lines of code it is good marketing.
>
> Isn't that the foundation of Python's popularity?
> And perl before that?
> And php?
>
> Just do it! :)

For once, I agree with you :-D

I often enjoy reading short programs that illustrate something clever. Some 
large project, I'm unlikely to start browsing its source.