On 09/23/2015 01:16 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 16:22:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
FWIW, Python hit pretty big success with a different approach: Appeal
to people's innate desire for instant gratification.
Perl and Python gained traction because they replaced multiple other
scripting tools by a single one. What is D replacing?
C/C++ (and Python) as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately, marketing it
that way isn't so PC anymore ;) But hell, that's what drew me.
(You can compare Python2/C99 with D1 and Python3/C11 with D2.)
Except D2's already surpassed D1 :)