Thanks for another trolling post of yours. :rolleyes: Weren't you supposed
to stop posting?
On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:43:36 -0500, retard <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote:
I'm not sure if bearophile or some other language advocate posted this
already, but:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c3p8e/
if_you_have_to_learn_just_one_programming_language/
"Here are my criteria for selecting (a non domain specific) language to
learn."
"It should provide high level of abstraction so that programmer
productivity is high. A fast running application written in C that takes
6 months is — in most cases — not as useful as one that can be completed
in 1 month: programmer cost as well as time-to-market considerations."
D is very close to C. The productivity is much lower than with other
modern scripting or hybrid-functional languages.
"Speed: It should be fast (should approach C in speed)."
DMD is much slower than Sun Javac/Jvm 7, GNU GCC 4.5, and LLVM.
"Succinct: The language should not be verbose. This is very important.
Brevity is one reason why Python and Ruby are popular."
For example the lambda syntax is terribly verbose in D compared to Scala
or Haskell.
"It should be a mature and time-tested language with active development,
user base and lots of applications."
D & DMD are unstable, badly specified, buggy and most dsource projects
are deprecated (D1) or dead.
"Platform agnostic: It should not favor or give advantage to one
platform."
DMD only works on 32-bit x86.
"Code readability and maintainability: It should be relatively easy for
authors and others to maintain existing code."
Java 2-7 is very backwards compatible compared to D2.
"Opensource is a fine model, but if the author doesn’t want to release
his/her creation under open-source he/she should be able to do so."
The official backend is non-free.
"Has a test framework that can generate and run tests."
The integrated unittest construct is a joke compared to JUnit et al.
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