Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Justin Johansson]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Me feels that many readers of this ng would enjoy a recap of just 
exactly are those design principles?  Of more interest though will be 
the ensuring discussion from your response!!! :-)