The design principles of D (aka The D Manifesto)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
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> Deeply nested in the thread "Marketing of D", the creator or D wrote
>
> "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 the assurance of the believers, the swaying-over of the disbelievers 
> and for the amusement of the bystanders (the D-agnostics), it would be 
> great to have those design principles re-articulated here.
>
> For my own satisfaction, I would like to know if the "D design principles" 
> (whatever they are) are concert with some fundamental axioms from which 
> the rest of the D language is formulated by induction or some other 
> mathematically/logically satisfying instrument.
>
> So may I ask of the creator of D what exactly are the design principles of 
> the language.  In particular, I would be very interested to hear whether 
> or not the type system aspects of the language are coherent.
>

Another one seems to be "pragmatism over religious adherence". (Like 
dsimcha's, this one can be contrasted with Java.)

Also, "make the right thing easier, and the wrong thing harder".