Why are homepage examples too complicated?

[Karabuta via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 22:12:42 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:06:26 UTC, Karabuta wrote:

> I agree, something friendly and familiar would be called for. 
> Instead we have weird float-rounding programs.
>
> The goal of such program should be to push the reader to 
> continue reading by apealing to familiarty. I think this 
> strongly conveys the message that D is complicated and "not for 
> me".
>
> See also:
> https://golang.org/
> https://www.rust-lang.org/fr-FR/
> https://crystal-lang.org/
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/
> https://www.python.org/
>
> Do you notice something? The language branded as "simple" have 
> the simplest landing page programs.

Apparently someone here thinks showing CPU internals is the best 
way to teach a beginner programming for him to write efficient 
code from learning stage. The art of teaching does not work that 
way in the real world.

The "!" is more trouble than good (IMO for the majority).  @Adam 
Roupe did a talk at previous DConf which he testifies to this.