Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/6/2016 1:36 PM, Dave wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 20:33:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/6/2016 12:44 PM, Satoshi wrote:
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>> More complex? Wow!
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>> C++ for junior programmers is easier? Wow!
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> Most learn C++ in college. So they have a 'headstart'

Even acquiring minimal competency in C++ has a very long learning curve, or 
perhaps I just have a different idea of what minimal competency is. Heck, the 
C++ code I wrote just a few years ago I regard as crap today.

My personal pet peeve are junior programmers who think they get it, find some 
perverted corner case in the language, and build their entire application around 
that. They confuse their mastery of the corner case with competence.

(This happens with all languages, not just C++, it's just that C++ provides so 
many opportunities for it!)