C++ to catch up?

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

>> Wait, is this a reply today to a post made in November 2012? 
>> -- Andrei

> Yes, here is what happens:
>
> 1. person does a search, finds 2+ year old thread that he likes 
> to respond to.
> 2. Entire thread gets pushed to the "most recent" posts on 
> forum/newsgroup
> 3. Others now see the thread (possibly for the second time), 
> and don't realize it's old, and read it thinking it's about 
> today.
>
> A nice thing might be to make color of posts on forum.dlang.org 
> based on recentness, 2+ month old be one color, 1+ year be 
> another.
>
> This wouldn't help with newsgroup users, but it probably would 
> help with forum users.
>
> -Steve

Perhaps I should have made clearer in my post, but do you think 
it is necessarily inappropriate to extend a conversation that 
petered out rather than making a new post.  Many observers (Neil 
Postman - 'amusing ourselves to death') have pointed to the 
superficiality and loss of coherence arising from the way in 
which we use technology.

The question of D's edge and prospects isn't one that changes 
more than incrementally over a couple of years, as I understand 
it.  And I thought more than a few times before deciding to post 
as to whether this would add value to the world, but it's an 
important question and my particular part of finance is not a 
tiny use domain.

Putting oneself in the position of a prospective new user (as I 
have to do before suggesting my peers give D a try), one comes 
away from reading Slashdot discussions with the idea that there 
are a lot of complaints about D - and then one reads the forums 
and has a similar perspective.  Since people are starved of 
attention and time, some will give up right then.  So I wanted to 
do my small part to contextualize this.



Laeeth.