Why is D unpopular?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 4/30/22 13:14, Dukc wrote:
 > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 20:05:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 >> As to why there aren't references to D as inspiration,

Bjarne Stroustrup mentions non-C++ programming languages only when he 
sees failures as in "Java tried." I will never hear him mention D.

 >> and no
 >> references to Zortech C++'s seminal role in the early days of C++,
 >> consider this:
 >>
 >> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3613.pdf
 >
 > I can't fathom what they were thinking when they wrote that paper. The
 > reasoning in it is so bad that it's an outright disgrace to the C++
 > committee.

Note that the authors are just three influential people there, 
preempting the rest of the C++ committee from making a "mistake".

As later I learned, Andrew Sutton has been strongly against the ideas of 
Sean Baxter's Circle compiler as well, I started to think he may be the 
main author of the paper above. (The ratio of typos in that article is 
beyond what I am accustomed to in Bjarne Stroustrup papers.) It is 
unfortunate that the rest of the C++ committee accepted the "mistake" of 
leaving 'static if' out.

 > downright hostile. You really deserved much better than that.

Not everybody has the tactfulness to accept the ideas of non-academics. 
So much so that they went out of their way to write a paper about it. 
And with a juvenile title like that...

Ali