A summary of D's design principles

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:i6r1hn$2uu1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>A coworker asked me where he could find a brief document of D's design 
>principles. This was after I'd mentioned the "no function hijacking" 
>stance.
>
> I think it would be a great idea if the up-and-coming 
> www.d-programming-language.org contained such a document.
>
> Ideas for what it could contain? I know we discussed this once in the 
> past, but couldn't find the discussion.
>

- Pragmatism
- Make the "right" thing easy and the "wrong" thing hard.
- Toolbox, not "One best tool" (In D-style, you pick the tool. In non-D 
style, the tool picks YOU!)