Python vs D [ was Re: Bartosz about Chapel ]

[Paulo Pinto]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> On 11/10/11 2:01 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Without a properly financed and orchestrated marketing campaign to push
>> D out there to the C, C++ and Fortran crowd and/or a group of people who
>> could be the "killer audience", and then for there to be serious take
>> up, D remains a 10+ year old niche experiment with no mainline future.
>
> That would help, but I'm not sure that that would be a necessity. There 
> are languages that are doing well without massive marketing (Perl, Ruby, 
> Python).

True but somehow they manage to become famous because there was a killer 
feature
everyone wanted to use. If I recall correctly:

Perl - An easy way to create complex shell scripts and the major language to 
be used for web development (CGI)
Ruby - It only took off because Ruby on Rails
Python - People only started taking it serious after Zope appeared

So it was a bit like JavaScript, where the majority of developers took 
interest in the language because
of some task which was a kind of sales speach for the language.

This is still missing for D, regardless how good the language might be.

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Paulo