NWCPP january talk

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Janderson wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Bartosz has signed me up to give a presentation at the January 
>>> meeting of the NWCPP. http://www.nwcpp.org/
>>>
>>> I am not sure what to talk about, though. Any particular D topics 
>>> you'd find particularly interesting?
>>
>> Problems in C++ that D solves.
> 
> A lot of people have asked me to stop talking about limitations in C++ 
> <g> and instead concentrate on what D can do.

So don't TALK about them. Folks are sick and tired of hype and fud anyway.

Implicitly you'll address C++'s limitations anyhow, since there's 
obviously no point in talking about D stuff where C++ works equally well.

Combine Martha Stewart and Mythbusters. Pick a programming task or a 
small example application or algorithm, and show them that it can be 
written easily and painlessly with D. (Something that obviously would be 
a pain to do in C++.) BUT DON'T MENTION C++ EVEN ONCE in the presentation.

And let the audience themselves have the Aha of 'gee, i would have spent 
three days on that in my language', which obviously is C++.