On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 07:38:18 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> Some posters on reddit remarked that D's sales pitch on the website is unnecessarily long and unindicative.
>
> I'm only making a suggestion; suggest others or comment on this one:
>
> D is a multiparadigm systems programming language with excellent static introspection that lets you choose exactly what to pay for. <optional>D is a joy to write and easy to maintain: it's systems scripting with native performance.</optional>
>
> Turned out too long :/

8) omg D ftw ;)

On 08/31/2015 01:09 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Seems like the sound byte has become the "we can't read that sentence,
> it is too long, and contains insufficient mispelt words". One does
> wonder at the attention span of the post-texting generation, seems
> like about 3ms. The human race is doomed.

That paragraph sounded interesting at first but tl;dr. :p

Ali

"Are you tired of waiting?"

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 07:38:18 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> Some posters on reddit remarked that D's sales pitch on the website is unnecessarily long and unindicative...

I used to suffer from long compile times, poor move semantics, and undefined behavior. Then my doctor told me about D...

Side effects may include satisfaction, enjoyment, too much free time, ...

D is not for everyone. Do not use D if you are an incessant fanboy, ideological bigot, ...

A deficient in vitamin D causes a softening of the brains.

On 01-Sep-2015 22:00, data man wrote:
> A deficient in vitamin D causes a softening of the brains.

My favorite so far ;)

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Dne 1.9.2015 v 21:13 Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> On 01-Sep-2015 22:00, data man wrote:
>> A deficient in vitamin D causes a softening of the brains.
>
> My favorite so far ;)
>
Sames here :)

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 07:57:46 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> I'd remove the "joy to write and easy to maintain" bit. That's personal opinion.
>
> Could use the "Systems scripting with native performance" as a tag line though. It's nice!
>
> My, slightly altered, version:
>     D is a multiparadigm systems programming language with deep
>     static introspection that lets you choose exactly what to pay
>     for.
>
>     Systems scripting.
>     Native performance.

I'm somewhat boring in public but anyway, I'm voting for this ;)

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 19:00 +0000, data man via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> A deficient in vitamin D causes a softening of the brains.

This is not quite as funny as it might sound, it is not the brain that is the issue, it is bones and cancer that are related issues in vitamin D deficiency.

I am not a fan of "political correctness", and maybe I am being over -sensitive for various reasons, but I think we should choose our comedy lines very carefully. Comments in emails are one thing, no problem basically, the issue arises when a community/product uses a line that is less than constructive.

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On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 20:14:03 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I am not a fan of "political correctness", and maybe I am being over -sensitive for various reasons, but I think we should choose our comedy lines very carefully.

I guess that rules out all D-cup jokes...