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[bearophile]

Peter Alexander:

> It's interesting that you've brought up the issue of the message being 
> sent out about D, because I feel it is exactly the opposite: it's far 
> too positive. Everyone seems to only talk about all the cool features in 
> D and seem to ignore all the issues that exist.
> ...
> It's hard to quantify whether my post has had a negative or positive 
> impact on the language, but I believe honesty and openness are good 
> things. People coming anew to D shouldn't be misled into thinking that 
> it has no issues (as I was -- no one mentioned the implementation 
> issues). I believe a disappointed user is much worse than missed user.

I agree. Andrei (and others) were not listing the bad sides enough. A bit more transparency is better even in discussions outside this newsgroup. It's dangerous to give false hopes.

Bye,
bearophile