Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 10/16/2014 03:26 PM, RBfromME wrote:

 > I'm a newbie to programming and have been looking into the D lang as a
 > general purposing language to learn, yet the D overview indicates that
 > java would be a better language to learn for your first programming
 > language. Why?  Looks like D is easier than Java...

Here:

   http://dlang.org/overview.html

"As a first programming language - Basic or Java is more suitable for 
beginners."

I say, just ignore that comment. :) We should open a bug report for that 
page.

I had great fun writing a programming book for complete beginners and 
found it very easy to use D for that purpose:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

Ali