D any good. Do you think it has a future? Better than C++? Better than Java?
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Christy McJesus!DcbLlAZi7U2005-03-23 7:37
The core language seems to be better designed than either of its peers. What it needs is a well documented mature library. If it had that it could easily replace C++. Not Java though - that's Python's job :)
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Anonymous2005-03-23 11:13
Not really. If you're going to bother learning some unsupported underdeveloped obscure language with no community at least choose a fun one - OCaml, (S)ML, Ruby, Haskell, Concurrent Clean are all excellent candidates for that.
OCaml, ML, Haskell, and Concurrent Clean are all faggy academic languages. The only one on your list worth learning is Ruby, and that doesn't mean D sucks.
D kicks ass. If you're a C programmer who's fed up of all of C's warts you'll love it. If you're a scriptingfag who's scared of real systems programming languages then you won't...but it's not for YOU anyway.
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Of course it can. Any Turing-complete language with IO can compile itself. Even Brainfuck can. Don't mistake a lack of compilers with the inability to write them.