On 10/24/2011 6:52 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/24/2011 5:42 PM, dsimcha wrote:
I got the impression that D is not being used partly because of the obvious
reasons (lack of libraries, legacy code in other languages) but also partly
because most people, even if they've heard of it, don't know what its most
important features/benefits are. I think that we need to develop a short,
memorable "elevator speech" version of its selling points, even if we ignore
some substantial areas in doing so. The one I used was basically
"compile-time
metaprogramming on steroids, static if, CTFE, string mixins, see
std.algorithm,
std.range and std.parallelism for examples".
You're right, I've been recently wrestling with the elevator pitch thing for
D. I know we need one. Bartosz has suggested "Systems programming safe and
easy."
That's not a pitch, that's a slogan or a catch phrase. It might be enough
to get the listener to invite the pitch.
Right, but you need a headline that's 140 characters or less (tweet size). For
example, the ipad was "1000 songs in your pocket". The iphone was "reinvention
of the phone".
A pitch needs to be longer and more informative. You've got 20-30 seconds
to convince the person to look deeper. It's enough to list a couple
important points. Top three reasons it's worth looking at closer..
something along those lines.
The 3 keys come next. It has to be more than two, and less than 4. I've been
toying with:
1. control
2. multi-paradigm
3. robustness
(Yes, I've been reading a book on this!)
