Georg Wrede wrote: > Derek Parnell wrote: >> The thing is, Wikipedia is not the platform for promoting specific >> 'brands'. The purpose is more geared towards promoting ideas, >> concepts, and >> facts. Providing alternate examples of design patterns in D, in articles >> about patterns, is not the best use of Wikipedia. >> The places to but D code examples, are in articles about D, or where >> there >> are no existing examples for a concept or technique. I'm pretty sure that >> if you enter D examples where similar examples in other languages already >> exist, they will be promptly removed. Also, C is still the >> lingua-franca of >> the programming community, so examples in *any* other language are >> usually >> subject to 'special' editoral scrutiny. > > While you are correct, it shouldn't discourage us from trying. > > And, as you say, pages where there isn't yet any C or Java would be the > best places to start. > > As aarti_pl pointed out, it might happen that some D code gets removed, > especially if there already is C, Java or C# code for the same thing. > This only serves to show that proponents of other languages have this > same idea of languages competing for publicity. This should make us even > more determined!
You don't win fans by going around shouting in people's faces, nor by artificially inflating your own importance. Don't forget that Wikipedia is meant as a reference. As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, D is a nothing to the general programming public. They have examples in C, Java, etc. because those languages are widely used. D isn't. It'd be like adding examples in INTERCAL. They'd remove it because it's not a "big," popular language. Now, getting more projects out there written in D is another matter entirely... -- Daniel
