Come to think of it, it's exactly the same situation here. Some people still use and love C. One of the most famous programmers is a C guru and he used his expertise in C to write the even more famous OS kernel., which sits in the heart of the vast majority of operating systems today.
By making D and DMD open-source and community-driven you ensured it's usability-oriented evolution. I can't thank you enough for that. :-) When I finally finish my first project with my brother and start selling it, I'll quit my job and get self-employed, which will allow me to direct more effort in developing D. After all, D is the source of my future profit. I gotta invest in my own profit. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/11/2011 2:57 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: >> >> Can anyone help me out in this quest of enlightening people? > > There was the same thing with C programmers when C++ was new. People would > insist that they could do OOP in C, and yes, they could. I've seen it. It > works. > > It is awful, though. > > People who were willing to learn new things moved on to C++. The C community > didn't go away, but it did become a community of very conservative > programmers who resisted anything new. Look at the evolution of the C > standard since then - change is practically nonexistent. All the people that > wanted change moved to other languages. > > So I wouldn't worry about it. We need to concentrate on making D the best we > can. To help spread the word, the best way is to write articles about D. >
