Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 08:45 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> 
> so let 'em use those languages. they will not return anything, 
> thus i see no reason to care about their bussiness needs. i've 
> never seen "this language is used in banking" to be used as the 
> main reason for choosing one language over another (outside the 
> banking, of course ;-).
> 
> if they want to contribute and support their contribution — 
> great, they can. but if they want somebody to do the work for 'em 
> for free... two words, seven letters.

Generally I would agree. However with something like "big decimal" I'd
say it is worth doing anyway – even though the impetus appears to be
from financial computing.

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Russel.
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