Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Justin Johansson]

retard wrote:
> Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:06:24 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
>> ""Jérôme M. Berger"" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote in message
>> news:hujboe$tp2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I actually find that funny. Something in Java that isn't an Object? I
>>>> remember "Everything's an object!" being paraded around as a selling
>>>> point.
>>>>
>>> Yes, in Java, everything is an object except where that bothered
>>> the language "designers". There are several such design decisions in
>>> Java...
>> 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.
> 
> Part of the "religious" feel of Java comes from the fact that it runs on 
> a VM. The safe memory model imposes some restrictions as you might have 
> noticed in SafeD. The 'everything is an Object' idea is a bit broken, 
> performance-wise. That's why C# added reified types. The reason they 
> added primitive types has a rationale behind it. The decision made the VM 
> a useful tool for real enterprise applications.

Hear, hear.  The idea that "everything is a Object" is definitely 
broken.  Java cannot fix this misidea and this leaves an opportunity for 
newcomer languages (or oldcomer languages in new clothes).