Today the Hobbyist, Tommorow, The World!

[Bruno Medeiros]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> First of all, don't call it "hobbyists" :P  We are all "early 
>> adopters", and for most of us D is more than hobby (even if the 
>> allocated time is similar). Hobbyism and hobby programs for me is the 
>> trivial stuff I write in the Bash shell scripting language (which 
>> sucks BTW).
>>
>>
>> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>>> I'm becoming more and more convinced that D needs a polished 
>>> presence. How did Java succeed? Marketing. Plain and simple, the 
>>> first revisions sucked, but got evangelized extremely effectively. 
>>> How much better, since we have a quality compiler, to market it.
>>>
>>
>> Matureness must come before marketing.
>> Still, early "evangelism", as Walter put it, (which I consider 
>> different from marketing) is important and does come before 
>> matureness, since attracting a good number of (and an influential set 
>> of) early adopters is crucial to achieve matureness and "goodness".
>>
> 
> How would you quantify this? Then once you do, where would you place DMD?
> 

I'm not sure what you mean or what you're asking bout.


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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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