[OT] Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 14:25 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> 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.
[…]

I found some nice features of FORTRAN in 1975 and proceeded to do all
my FORTRAN programming in abstract-data-type style (a few years later
this might have been labelled "object oriented"). Wholly inappropriate
for FORTRAN obviously.

I think many of the same techniques are still being used in JavaScript
programming.

-- 
Russel.
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