Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[PauloPinto]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 05:22:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 17:45:29 UTC, Ramon wrote:
>>> Moor's law is kaput, finish, niet, we don't know how to use 
>>> the extra transistor.
>>
>> Even if that were true, we have gone quite some distance. Not 
>> even talking about Sparc T4 or 8-core X86, my smartphone is 
>> more powerful than what I had as computer 10 years or so ago.
>>
>
> Just read this this : 
> ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/ISCA11.pdf and come 
> back informed.
>
>>> A vast amount of software is written in javascript, java, C#, 
>>> PHP and many "safe" languages, and still are crippled with 
>>> bugs.
>>
>> Do I get you right considering js, java, C# and PHP being 
>> "safe" languages?
>>
>
> They are dramatically superior to C in term of safety.
>

Like Modula-2, Pascal dialects (mainly Turbo/Apple Pascal) and
Ada are, but lost their place in developer's hearts.

Now with D, Rust and even Go we can have another go at making
system programming a better world.

--
Paulo