Don't discount the major advantage of being a second round design and implementation as well. I'm sure you learned a lot in the first iteration that fed directly into not making the same set of mistakes again.
Not that D isn't the better language, but there's so many variables in situations like this that you really can't draw significant conclusions from them. All that said.. yay for going with D and having success with it, for whatever the reasons. :) Later, Brad Unknown W. Brackets wrote: > For another real world example, we had a server daemon written in Java > and it took forever, had huge problems, cost us quite a bit, etc. etc. > > We decided to have the same server rewritten in D, and it took > significantly less time, works correctly according to spec, doesn't > crash/hang half as often (the Java server would die in a way that made > it appear to still be up, made us crazy), and more. > > Sure, maybe this is a reflection of the programmer who worked on it - > but in the end, D was by far the better route for us. > > -[Unknown] > > > bearophile wrote: >> Walter Bright: >>> D aims to reduce project costs by reducing training time and >>> shortening development time.< >> >> I agree that this is very important. Helping the programmer avoid bugs >> and helping her to follow good design practices are among the most >> important qualities of a programming language, because in practical >> programming often most time (= money) is spent debugging programs and >> updating them. >> >> But you are comparing D with C++, because programming in D1 is faster >> and often simpler than doing the same in C++. >> >> But today most people use languages like Java, Python, C#, that often >> shorten developing time even more than D1. >> D1 is almost a system language, so it's not easy to compete with the >> productivity of application languages designed to put the programmer >> first and the CPU second. >> >> And D2 is not an easy&simple language, you need a good amount of time >> to learn/teach it, more than Java for example. >> >> Bye, >> bearophile
