Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Jan 2007 21:39 UTC
"D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability. D is statically typed, and compiles direct to native code. It's multiparadigm: supporting imperative, object oriented, and template metaprogramming styles. It's a member of the C syntax family, and its look and feel is very close to C++'s. See this comparison of D with C, C++, C#, and Java."
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Member since:2005-10-31
I understand their need to sell the D idea. Nonetheless that doesn't make astroturfing acceptable, specially if it is based on lies and dishonesty. If the D programming language is any good and has technical merit then it will fly on it's own. If it is not (or to put it in other words, it doesn't bring any relevant improvement over existing languages and is nothing more than another language with some small syntax changes and a couple of silly options just for the sake of being different) then obviously a lot of guerilla marketing, including astroturfing, is needed. Yet, marketing doesn't bring any technical merits to any project.
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2005-11-20
If that wasn't enough, the agressive astroturfing campaign that is being run by the D proponents, which includes spamming multiple online forums like newsgroups and blogs (this is a good example)
, but I am far from angry about its guerrilla marketing...
Do they have any other choice? The project is not backed by big money to buy ads in New York Times.
Personally, I do not like D too much (mostly because I think C++ does not need fixing