Unclear about the benefits of D over C++ and Java

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 09:55:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> C++ was hyped up in the press and commercial sector because it 
> provided abstraction mechanisms on top of the existing C 
> infrastructure.

And just to give some context to this: in the 80s a large number 
of programmers were self-taught and had never been exposed to a 
disciplined language like Java as their first language, many 
started with BASIC and machine language. At best they had some 
experience with ad hoc structured programming in Pascal.

In the 80s it was not uncommon to implement applications or 
portions of applications in assembly, and CISC CPUs like motorola 
68k had a rather high level instruction set so it wasn't as 
unpleasant as it sounds. One guy I knew implemented a full 
fledged BBS system (Amiga BBS) in assembly because he didn't know 
C and thought he might as well do it in machine language rather 
than learning C...

In that context C++/OOP provided a new market for educational 
books and magazine articles and lots of "propaganda". Which in 
turn made C++ fashionable... It created a sense of "you need to 
learn C++", yet in practice many just used it as C with inlining 
and overloading...