I generally find Joel Spolsky's blog a very fine read, and today I almost thought he was writing about D, check it out:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

<shameless plug>
With some good help from Oskar, I rewrote the examples in D over at my
blog</shameless plug> and sent a mail to Joel. Having him mention D would
most certainly boost the awareness of D out there, although I suspect that
he won't do much more than possibly read my mail.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource & #D: larsivi

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> I generally find Joel Spolsky's blog a very fine read, and today I almost
> thought he was writing about D, check it out:
> 
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
> 
> <shameless plug>
> With some good help from Oskar, I rewrote the examples in D over at my
> blog</shameless plug> and sent a mail to Joel. Having him mention D would
> most certainly boost the awareness of D out there, although I suspect that
> he won't do much more than possibly read my mail.

I met Joel last March. He's a good guy, and very smart. He knows about D, but I don't know his opinion of it.

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> I generally find Joel Spolsky's blog a very fine read, and today I almost
> thought he was writing about D, check it out:
> 
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
> 
> <shameless plug>
> With some good help from Oskar, I rewrote the examples in D over at my
> blog</shameless plug> and sent a mail to Joel. Having him mention D would
> most certainly boost the awareness of D out there, although I suspect that
> he won't do much more than possibly read my mail.
> 

Maybe he doesn't want to criticize a moving target.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> I generally find Joel Spolsky's blog a very fine read, and today I almost
>> thought he was writing about D, check it out:
>>
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
>>
>> <shameless plug>
>> With some good help from Oskar, I rewrote the examples in D over at my
>> blog</shameless plug> and sent a mail to Joel. Having him mention D would
>> most certainly boost the awareness of D out there, although I suspect that
>> he won't do much more than possibly read my mail.
> 
> I met Joel last March. He's a good guy, and very smart. He knows about D, but I don't know his opinion of it.

I read one of his books and sent him kudo's on it and to my surprise he returned the e-mail. IIRC, his book mentioned how he had to write a 'pascal string' C lib. for a project (to avoid strlen() inefficiencies) and I took the opportunity to mention D at that time. Didn't get anything back, but didn't really expect to either.

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> I generally find Joel Spolsky's blog a very fine read, and today I almost
> thought he was writing about D, check it out:
> 
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
> 
> <shameless plug>
> With some good help from Oskar, I rewrote the examples in D over at my
> blog</shameless plug> and sent a mail to Joel. Having him mention D would
> most certainly boost the awareness of D out there, although I suspect that
> he won't do much more than possibly read my mail.

Looks like Joel got dugg!

http://www.digg.com/programming/Can_Your_Programming_Language_Do_This