Slogan/catchphrase for D?

Brad Anderson brad at dsource.dot.org
Wed Mar 22 12:51:39 PST 2006


Walter Bright wrote:
> "pragma" <pragma_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
> news:dvs65b$1dee$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>How about: D - Work smarter, not harder.
>>?
> 
> 
> It's too vague. Remember the Java one - "write once, run everywhere"? That 
> was very effective. Need something like that for D.
> 
> C++'s catchphrase was originally "C with Classes", and later "A better C."
> 
> Andrei sent me a list of what pops in his head when he thinks about a 
> language:
> --------------------
> 1. FORTRAN. "First high-level language for scientific computing"
> 2. LISP. "Lambda. Garbage collection. S-expressions."
> 3. C. "Portable, efficient assembler. Systems programming"
> 4. C++. "Multiparadigm"
> 5. Perl. "Regular expressions. String manipulation."
> 6. Java. "Virtual Machine (= Write Once, ...). Safety."
> 7. Smalltalk. "Pure object-oriented."
> 8. Haskell. "Functional. Type inference."
> 9. Eiffel. "Contracts."
> -------------------------
> 
> "A better C++" - don't want to copy Bjarne
> "C++ reloaded" - too hollywood
> "C++ version 2" - <g>
> "C++ - we can rebuilt it, we have the technology" - 6 million dollar mannish
> "C++ streamlined" - ? 
> 

(C++)++



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