Matt wrote:
I know this conversation thread is a silly anecdote to many hardcore readers in this newsgroup, but it's message is dead-on serious when it applies to intelligent outsiders who peruse D, and sophomores in college trying to learn how to program, among others.
The thing is, often people focus on something silly when deciding what technology to use. For example, just go to any C++ forum and say you don't use C++ because of X. You'll get a million vehement responses saying how X isn't really an issue and has a trivial workaround.
