Input from a newbie

[Jonas H.]

On 04/09/2012 07:22 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I think most mentions of printf should just be removed from the dpl
> docs except maybe a few special places. People (or rather C++
> refugees) seem to expect D to be a syntax sugared version of C++, but
> this myth has to be busted.

I don't think that's true, or at least I didn't think of D like that. 
It becomes pretty clear after reading the introduction that D does not 
try to emulate C++, let alone be compatible to C(++).

Nevertheless, because the syntax and terminology are quite similar, 
people expect stuff to have the same names. That's why I expected the 
standard printing function to be named `printf` and this attempt failed 
miserably, without any guidance from the compiler/stdlib/whatever.