Is D still alive?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/27/11 1:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> retard wrote:
>> I also got brainwashed by the C++ advocates years ago. However, I
>> didn't need D to see how terrible writing C++ is. C++ sure is a
>> powerful language and sometimes a necessary evil, but you don't really
>> need very strong doses of more recent languages to see how much nicer
>> everything else is.
>
> What D unique shows is, however, that one can do C++ like things without
> the C++ issues, in other words, the problems C++ has are not necessary
> in order to get the powerful things C++ can do.

Well put. BTW I'm glad to see retard back in action. A small debate of 
bearophile about bounds checking and whatnot, Bruno doing his monthly 
bulk answering to posts, retard being down on D... it all starts looking 
like a good day on digitalmars.D :o).

Andrei