D beyond the specs

[Chris]

On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:50:26 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are 
> all examples of programming languages successfully used in 
> Europe, while having adoption issues on US.
>
> Even Delphi is still having regular conferences and magazine 
> articles here in Germany.

Now that's interesting, so maybe there is a pattern or a quality 
those languages have in common.

> Maybe we care more about enforced code quality? :)

Now, this an interesting point. Mind you, Python (forced 
indentation) is also a European language. "Quick and dirty" is 
more common in the US in the sense that they don't philosophize 
about things but just do them and see what happens (that's why 
they are often ahead of Europe when it comes to technology). 
There are loads of good ideas that never made it past the 
meetings, because they weren't "perfect" yet, while in the US 
they just did it and improved it later. Is this also the reason 
why D sometimes suffers from the "the perfect is the enemy of the 
good" syndrome?

@Guillaume
Theories are always made up, else they wouldn't be _theories_ ;)