A summary of D's design principles
JMRyan
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Sat Sep 18 23:33:28 PDT 2010
Simen Kjaeraas <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote in news:i6stke$o0v$1
@digitalmars.com:
> Here's a draft of something I'd like to see. I like having the ten
> commandments, with #0 not really counting. C&C welcome.
>
> == The D Manifesto ==
>
Please don't call it a manifesto. A statement of design goals or design
principles says, "This is what we want to do." A manifesto says, "This is
what everybody should want to do. This is exactly why the Date/Darwen
manifesto choose that word. D is a good language. (I am forced to use
Visual dBase in my day job, so I find D to be a really, Really, REALLY good
language). There are other good languages out there. There is no reason
that all systems/general purpose languages should have the same design
goals or priorities. The word "manifesto" suggests we think otherwise. C++
programmers already have an "if it is not The Next Big Thing in Programming
Languages, then why bother" attitude toward D. We don't want them to think
of us as kooky zealots was well.
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