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[Ary Manzana]

Bruno Medeiros escribió:
> Ary Manzana wrote:
>> janderson escribió:
>>> Falk-Florian Henrich wrote:
>>>> Am Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:16:08 -0700 schrieb janderson:
>>>>
>>>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>>> Personally I don't think D is anywhere near the threshold of having to
>>>>> much.  Take a look at the most successful langugage (English), it 
>>>>> keeps
>>>>> getting bigger and bigger every day.  We just don't have enough syntax
>>>>> to describe everything.
>>>>
>>>> Without discussing what "successful" is supposed to mean in the 
>>>> realm of natural languages, I think the syntax of English is 
>>>> shrinking rather than growing. Plus, today's lingua franca is a tiny 
>>>> subset of English with a type discipline comparable to that of K&R C.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from that, I agree with you that D's syntax is a lot easier to 
>>>> understand than that of C++.
>>>>
>>>> Falk
>>>
>>> By successful I mean most widely used, which is what we want D to 
>>> become.
>>
>> English is not succesful because of the language itself, but because 
>> of other reasons (power, articles, books). Just like Java is succesful 
>> but nowhere near because of the language (I guess VM, nice 
>> documentation system, IDEs).
>>
>> Maybe D should consider becoming succesful by other means besides of 
>> the language itself? :-)
>>
>> Ary
> 
> Man, I am the only programmer to actually (moderately) like the Java 
> language? :P
> 

I like Java a lot because of all those things. Having seen the video 
about Java closures, and being a Java programmer for about six years I 
realize it has some drawbacks, and that some code is larger than it 
should. But, on the other hand, there are great tools that makes those 
problems fade away... (or makes you think so :-P)