In article <drfsae$1941$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Mark T says...
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>>I am not sure about that. D is C/C++/Java like. I have introduced many people to the D language/website and everyone had generally the same reaction: "Wow this looks like a fantastic language, but will it take off?"
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>>I share that concern, as D lacks a major corporate sponsor or a major following.
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>Who was the "major corporate sponsor" for Perl, Python and Ruby?
>Just because Java and C# needed corporate backing doesn't mean that there aren't
>other ways for a language to succeed.

Without a major sponsor D is not going anywhere. D doesn't sports features that are peculiar enough to lure people away from industry standards (JAVA/.NET/C++)

vania@vaniacilli.com wrote:
> In article <drfsae$1941$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Mark T says...
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>>> I am not sure about that. D is C/C++/Java like. I have introduced many people to the D language/website and everyone had generally the same reaction: "Wow this looks like a fantastic language, but will it take off?"
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>>> I share that concern, as D lacks a major corporate sponsor or a major following.
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>> Who was the "major corporate sponsor" for Perl, Python and Ruby?
>> Just because Java and C# needed corporate backing doesn't mean that there aren't
>> other ways for a language to succeed.
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> Without a major sponsor D is not going anywhere. D doesn't sports features that
> are peculiar enough to lure people away from industry standards (JAVA/.NET/C++)
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Regarding sponsorship, this may be true; but have you actually programmed a project in D?  I believe you are incorrect regarding sported features.  The sported "features" in D that make it better than those languages is the manifold simplicity of implementing equivalent code.  D's weaknesses however lie elsewhere: lack of libraries, support tools, documentation, and... major sponsorship... these are hindering D's adoption.

-JJR