On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:33:28 +0000, JMRyan wrote: > Simen Kjaeraas <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote in news:i6stke$o0v$1 > @digitalmars.com: > >> Here's a draft of something I'd like to see. I like having the ten >> commandments, with #0 not really counting. C&C welcome. >> >> == The D Manifesto == >> >> > Please don't call it a manifesto. A statement of design goals or design > principles says, "This is what we want to do." A manifesto says, "This > is what everybody should want to do.
You're simply wrong. (Not just "technically", Jonathan.) -- JB > This is exactly why the > Date/Darwen manifesto choose that word. D is a good language. (I am > forced to use Visual dBase in my day job, so I find D to be a really, > Really, REALLY good language). There are other good languages out > there. There is no reason that all systems/general purpose languages > should have the same design goals or priorities. The word "manifesto" > suggests we think otherwise. C++ programmers already have an "if it is > not The Next Big Thing in Programming Languages, then why bother" > attitude toward D. We don't want them to think of us as kooky zealots > was well.