On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 17:20 +0000, Vasudev Ram via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Hi list, > > I hope the question is self-evident from the message subject. If > not, it means: what are D developers generally called (to > indicate that they develop in D)? The question occurred to me > somehow while browsing some D posts on the forums just now. > > DLanger? DLangist? D'er? Doer? :) > > I tend to favor DLanger, FWIW.
I would hope none of these, but as ketmar said "programmer". Terms such as Pythonista, Rubyist, Rustacean, Gopher, etc. are terms of tribalism and exclusion. They are attempts to ensure people claiming membership of the tribe reject being polyglot by pressuring them to eschew all other languages. A good programmer can work professionally with a number of languages, the psychology of programming people have data supporting this theory – if the languages have different computational models. Thus I would claim to be a programmer currently working with D for the project I am working on just now, with SCons/Python for the build system. In a while it will be C++ on another project with CMake. Later still it will be C and Meson on a different project. Further on it will be Kotlin and Frege using Gradle for yet another project. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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