Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Yea, that's a good example of why I've grown a distaste towards 
>> hard-and-fast religious design strategies. The designer inevitably comes 
>> across cases where it just doesn't work particularly well, and then 
>> they're forced to either stay true to their misguided principles by 
>> accepting an awkward problematic design, or contradict their alleged 
>> principles and go with a better design. And when they do the latter, that 
>> runs the risk of causing problems in other areas that had been relying on 
>> the old principle being rigidly followed.
>
> D has design principles, but those principles are often contradictory. I 
> don't see a good reason to follow a design principle out of principle if 
> it destroys the utility of the language.
>
> For example, consider:
>
>     version (unittest)
>
> 'unittest' is a keyword, not an identifier. Making this work requires a 
> special case in the grammar. But the alternatives,
>
>     version (Unittest)
>     version (unit_test)
>     version (unittests)
>
> etc. are all much worse than simply violating a principle and putting the 
> special case in.

Great example.

Of course, one could argue that we religiously follow pragmatism ;)

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