Reasons to use D

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 11:52:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Out of curiosity I searched for "reasons to use D" and I found 
> this:
>
> http://blog.pluralsight.com/d-programming-language-explained
>
> This paragraph called my attention:
>
> "At the same time, D doesn’t get all New Age on you: It doesn’t 
> try to be multi-paradigm, it doesn’t claim “five percent better 
> than C” performance, nor does it provide any language features 
> that dramatically alter the existing object-oriented 
> programming status quo."
>
> Sorry, but D _is_ multi-paradigm and it does challenge (not 
> actively though) the OOP "status quo".

It's ironic, BECAUSE D is multi-paradigm it allows the author to 
believe it's not. When you have a C like syntax and a language 
that allows you to write your Java like code, and if you don't 
know about ranges, then I can easily see how this could be the 
author's opinion.