Peter Alexander: > It's interesting that you've brought up the issue of the message being > sent out about D, because I feel it is exactly the opposite: it's far > too positive. Everyone seems to only talk about all the cool features in > D and seem to ignore all the issues that exist. > ... > It's hard to quantify whether my post has had a negative or positive > impact on the language, but I believe honesty and openness are good > things. People coming anew to D shouldn't be misled into thinking that > it has no issues (as I was -- no one mentioned the implementation > issues). I believe a disappointed user is much worse than missed user.
I agree. Andrei (and others) were not listing the bad sides enough. A bit more transparency is better even in discussions outside this newsgroup. It's dangerous to give false hopes. Bye, bearophile