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[Bane]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Bane" <branimir.milosavljevic at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:hl0ku9$vdt$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >
> > I hope that D's users club will grow over time, in spite of heavy 
> > oposition of number mature and popular languages in same category. What I 
> > believe is that existing club members are dedicated to and very happy with 
> > it, so numbers will only grow.
> >
> 
> The way I see it, there are depressingly few languages in the same category 
> as D (that category being multi-paradigm languages that are realistically 
> usable for systems programming).  Thare's C/C++ (although, IMO C/C++ is a 
> bit anachronistic these days), and then there's Google "Issue 9" (which is 
> *highly* debatable as to whether it actually counts as meeting the above 
> criteria), and then Cyclone and maybe a couple others like Vala that don't 
> seem to be very mature ATM (at least compared to D anyay). And that's about 
> it. 
> 

I think there are many potential languages in that category: C++/Java/Delphi/C#... depends of definition of  'same category':'multiparadigm, functional, OOP etc.', or 'what are/can ya building with it'.

And I don't think 'system programing' covers only kernel building. What about other multi threaded/process/heavy load/high concurrency/low level access stuff?

Which to chose is more a matter of personal preference, company politics or convenience than of language capabilities.