Re: D-Link with R/MATLAB/Julia/SQL

[Siavash Babaei]

One thing that professional programmers often miss is that 
by-and-large, many of the users of programming languages are not 
professional programmers by trade but they require them as tools 
to do their job and as such may not be as well-versed in many of 
the nooks-and-crannies. Hence, us-mere-mortals rely on ready-made 
libraries/packages that you master programmers design and 
implement in order to achieve our goals.
On another note, seeing as data mining and analysis is going to 
be probably one of the most important functions of any business 
for a foreseeable future, I think any decent language should have 
a more-or-less easy and straightforward way of 
interfacing/linking to languages/packages that handle data and 
their analysis, e.g., it should be fairly easy to access 
databases, spreadsheets, and the major data analysis tools like 
R/MATLAB/OCTAVE. Furthermore, one should not need to write code 
in another language like C in order to do that, i.e., D should be 
more or less self-sufficient.
The whole idea behind D is amazing and the language’s objectives 
seem very promising, but should it be my first real attempt at 
learning a general purpose programming language?! I am still 
baffled …