Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/8/11 3:29 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Lars T. Kyllingstad"<public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet>  wrote in message
> news:isn5rr$134r$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hudvd/
>> the_go_programming_language_or_why_all_clike/
>>
>> The author presents a "wish list" for his perfect systems programming
>> language, and claims that Go is the only one (somewhat) fulfilling it.
>> With the exception of item 7, the list could well be an advertisement for
>> D.
>>
>
> "Some of them enjoy a phase of hype, but then fade again, others stay in the
> spheres of irrelevancy, while yet others will be ready for public
> consumption any decade now."
>
> ...With "stay in the spheres of irrelevancy" linking to the D homepage.
>
> That annoys the hell out of me. D matches his wishlist better than Issue 9
> does, and it's dismissed for "irrelevency"? Heck, I could actually buy that
> if there were any actual basis at all for saying such a thing. But what
> could even *possibly* be considered reasons for saying so? Is it
> "irrelevent" just because it doesn't have some corporation behind it? That'd
> be some real broken reasoning. Is it "irrelevant" because it wasn't created
> by some guy who did something significant 40 years ago and hasn't done a
> damn thing of note since? Hell, unless you're pretending it's 197x, Andre's
> far more noteworthy than that Issue 9 guy. It sure as hell can't be
> "irrelevent" for lack of use. So what else could it be besides just having
> his head up his ass? Not that I think his head's up there. From what I read,
> I'm convinced the real reason is just that he's far too much a fan of ad
> hominem reasoning.

You're complaining in the wrong place. What you need to do is answer on 
reddit.

Andrei