Reply to Steve,
When Bjarne Stroustrup was originally promoting C++, he made a strong point that you could at least consider it to be a 'better C'. This point, it seemed to me, was lost on many. Now we are looking for radical arguments as to why D is a cool language. Maybe we should remember the basics, and concentrate less on the vapor.
"D is a low level language that can masquerade as a high level language" It has the low level stuff but if you just choose not to use them it looks and to a great extent acts like a high level one.
Bearophile made a counter-argument. But this also did not stress our basic weaknesses. Most of us are using DMD, which on Windows uses a 20 year old linker, and utilizes an antique object file format.
DMD now has 3 (or is it 4) different object file outputters. it shouldn't be hard from somone who knows somthing about a better format to be able to figure out how to patch one in and send Walter a patch.
or perhaps it should be the D Standard Library (DSL).
No, DSL is already used. DSR? D standard runtime?
