On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 05:56:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/31/2014 10:15 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I guess it must be a "keep patent lawyers in work" scheme.
There's another aspect at work with this one. I'm a bit irked
that something Andrei and I came up with in 2007 is claimed by
others to have been invented 5 years later. A number of
features pioneered by D have been showing up in other
languages, and D has not been acknowledged.
I agree. I have had the feeling for a long time now that D is
some sort of pariah among programming languages. Whatever D
offers is never good enough, until one of the big languages rips
it, then it's _the_ ultimate new thing!
I'm happy to acknowledge ideas from other languages that have
made it into D, and it is right for other languages to
reciprocate.
Yeah, but it never happens, does it? I wonder is that sheer
ignorance / carelessness or by design? Anyway, I think that D is
not being taken seriously (at least officially), because it is
not backed up / owned by one of the big players. It is entirely
community driven, which is something big corporations hate, and
many users get the (wrong) impression that D is half-baked and
not reliable. So they rather put up with Java where they have to
wait for useful features for years and are locked into rigid
programming paradigms.
What I don't intend to do is patent D's innovations. What D has
done is our gift to the programming community. I'm also glad
we're using github, as it is a fine way to document and
timestamp the provenance of D's features.
Good on you! But make sure the evidence does not disappear
miraculously, if you get my drift.
