From: Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] any views about the D programming language
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:43:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486380D1.4090904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806261210120.9925@racer>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Ittay Dror wrote:
>
>
>> I've read the language war thread (C vs C++) and I'm wondering if
>> someone would like to share their views about using D instead of C.
>>
>
> I would like to ;-)
>
> This is open source. You are free to do what you want to do. You are
> even welcome to do so.
>
> Just do not expect many people to be able to comment on your work, let
> alone be enthusiastic to use it, if you use an obscure language.
>
> Just take Tcl as an example: it is not exactly obscure, has been around
> for ages, and many commercial programs actually use it as a scripting
> language.
>
> Yet, there are preciously few people who _ever_ contributed anything to
> gitk or git-gui, and you hear that the main reason is the language.
>
> OTOH C is a common denominator, educates its users to exercise lots of
> circumspection (which means that those users will invariably write less
> buggy code, even using other languages), and the code in Git is already
> written in it. So why not stop bitching and just continue using it?
>
>
Sorry, I wasn't bitching. In fact, I agree with most views about C vs
C++ (especially Linus' post). I just wanted to see if people think, in
general (not related to git) that D is better/worse than C. So if I were
to start a new project, would they recommend using D. That's it.
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
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Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>
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2008-06-26 8:16 [OFF TOPIC] any views about the D programming language Ittay Dror
2008-06-26 11:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
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