LOL, reddit comment

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 02:38:17 UTC, Zach the Mystic 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 01:41:31 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I was just surfing reddit and this exchange with Walter made 
>> me LOL, talking about students who learn programming for the 
>> first time in college:
>>
>> Walter: Why would you say that? Very few of them actually even 
>> studied CS - they learned programming on the side. As did I, 
>> my degree is in mechanical engineering. I learned programming 
>> from reading DEC reference manuals and annoying my friends 
>> with idiotic questions like "what's a register?"
>> Starting programming in college is not too late at all.
>>
>> Kasper-Hauser: I think it was too late in your case judging 
>> from the fruits it has borne. D should stand for dumb. I'm 
>> convinced your're a plant from the mechanical engineering 
>> cartel trying to dumb down our industry.
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tou4y/techs_high_barrier_to_entry_for_the/co171cp
>>
>> Skimming the guy's other comments now, I guess he's a big 
>> Haskell fan, and somehow looks down on D.
>>
>> I've often thought that it's precisely because Walter is not a 
>> CS grad and has a real engineering background that D is so 
>> good, particularly since it means he's less likely to go 
>> chasing the CS fad of the moment.  Also, I'd guess that's 
>> where his pragmatic bent with the language comes from and must 
>> influence his particular sense of usability and technical 
>> design.  We've certainly all heard enough about how Boeing 
>> does it, particularly when it comes to failsafe reliability. ;)
>
> Unfortunately, even Boeing isn't what it used to be:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os

FYI, Qatari Airway's GCEO Al Baker has repeatedly publicly stated 
his opinion(on disliking) Boeing. Both Al Jazeera and Qatari 
Airway are owned by the Qatari government.
Take an entire box of salt with that "documentary."