Coolest D features

[Jeff]

On 2006-12-29 15:12:41 -0800, Brad Anderson <brad at dsource.org> said:

> torhu wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>>> Say you wanted to introduce a programmer friend to D. She might know
>>> one of D's sibling languages (Java, C, C++, or C#), but you shouldn't
>>> rely too much on that. What features of D would you describe first to
>>> hook that friend in?
>>> 
>> 
>> D is the compiled language I know that comes closest to python.  Hearing
>> that would make me interested, I can tell you.
> 
> That's a very good point.  I agree that it's the closest to Python (albeit,
> "as close as a lang like this can go", and I agree that this will be an
> interesting statement to a fairly wide audience.  If we could only get some
> docs like Python, to complement the reference at DigitalMars...
> 
> BA

I am not very impressed by Python's docs.  The best docs that I've seen 
are the PHP docs because of commenting and excellent examples.

-- Jeff