"BCS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply to dsimcha, > >> == Quote from bearophile ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article >> >>> D is a fringe language, and it's not an easy one (system language and >>> all that), >>> >> so there's never shortage of unusual people in this newsgroup :-) >> >>> Java groups are so boooring compared to this one :-) >>> Bear hugs, >>> bearophile >> Do people seriously consider D a "difficult" language? Given that it >> has garbage collection out of the box, builtin arrays, etc. I would >> have guessed that most people only consider it to be of moderate >> difficulty. Yes, you *can* do down-and-dirty programming with >> pointers, manual memory management, etc. in it, but you don't *have >> to* unless the nature of your problem domain would require it no >> matter what the language. >> > > Compared to C or C++ it's down right easy,
That begs the question: Is it viable if no one will underwrite it? Tony
