If you go to reddit programming:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
you'll see a thread about John Carmack's QuakeCon speech. If you click the comments button and scroll down half way:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jar93/john_carmack_gives_his_thoughts_on_static/
you'll see Walter Bright trying to sell people on the idea that if they used D, they would not have to rely on Static Checking as was mentioned by Carmack
point being, their are better alternatives to C/C++ for writing productive code