EXE? Anyone every written a D program I can execute?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"John Reimer" <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I have to agree with the above.  It's the clear truth.
>
> But I imagine the need to "see" the binary stems from the same sort of
> psychological factor on which advertising/marketing preys.  It's
> neither logical nor objective.  But it's very powerful.
>
> This is one reason D will struggle to have any influence on the majority 
> of
> users as long as it's main marketing is based on language qualities and
> comparisons: few, beyond language techies, will harken based on D's
> features and improvements alone. That's why libraries and applications are
> sometimes the single most important publicity piece (think Ruby on Rails).
>
> Only later do people start to realize the importance of some language
> features. Even then, most of the features are largely unnecessary or
> non-critical from the actual project's perspective; people may just grow
> fond of them for individual reasons.

Good points.  As a fan of languages, it makes me sad to know that this is 
the truth, though.  Executives are more interesting in hearing about how 
using a language will "increase their dynamic growth potential" or "effect a 
scalable Web 2.0 XHTML AJAX paradigm shift" based on how other projects 
written in the language have done.