Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

[Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:26:51 UTC, 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...

D is far more complex programming language than Java. I do D 
programming for over decade, and Java for ~9 years (before I was 
a C++ programmmer). Just take a look at number of types you have 
in D, storage classes, pointers, modules (that will soon come to 
Java too), etc... D generics are superior to Java. However, Java 
generics are superasy.

Java is designed to be an easy programming language, D is 
designed to be pragmatic. If people new to programming were about 
to start with D as the first language, I suggest them to start 
with an easy subset of it, and I humbly believe that subset will 
look very, very similar to Java.

PS. this is not Java advocacy here, I am just trying to be fair 
and realistic. I just love D but if I said D is as easy as Java, 
that would be a lie.