Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?)

[Walter Bright]

Caligo wrote:
>     Yeah, I don't think Linus would find D appealing.

> So why is D being advertised as a systems programming language?  By 
> saying Linus would not find D appealing you are basically saying kernel 
> developers would not find it appealing.

Not at all. He's hardly the only systems programmer. I'd expect the number of 
different opinions about what makes a good systems language to be about equal to 
the number of systems developers.