Slogan/catchphrase for D?

John Demme me at teqdruid.com
Wed Mar 22 07:50:02 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" - ?

D = C + (C++) + Java - (all the crap)

or

"C++ and Java without all the crap"

I hate marketing.

~John Demme



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