Why D isn't the next "big thing" already

[LaTeigne via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 11:46:11 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 11:31:26 UTC, LaTeigne wrote:
>> For example in the 2000's Delphi was incredibly popular in 
>> Russia because the holder at this time (so Borland unless it 
>> was already Code Gear) sold literally **hundreds** of licenses 
>> to the russian education department.
>
> actually, no. nobody ever bothers to buy licenses at all. 
> delphi was popular due to teachers mostly know nothing except 
> pascal, so using turbo pascal, then borland pascal, then delphi

Your stupid. This is a well known fact.

https://www.quora.com/I-have-been-told-that-Russians-are-the-best-in-computer-programming-Why-is-that-Which-programming-language-do-they-use-Do-they-use-the-same-languages-that-we-use-or-do-they-use-something-totally-different/answer/Dmitry-Popov-6

http://delphihaters0.blogspot.com/2011/02/delphi-in-russia.html

PPL using pirated copies is another story. I speak well about 
what was setup in the universities themselves, you know... in the 
computer rooms.

> was the logical choice. believe me, it had nothing to do with 
> licensing, you hardly ever find legal, non-pirated delphi 
> version there.

You remind me that an idiot has open-sourced the keygen on 
GitHub. Don't know if it's still there.

By the way aren't you czech Ketmar ?