• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> May 19 2010
• Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> May 19 2010
• Neob Stojec <a a.com> May 19 2010
• Justin Johansson <no spam.com> May 19 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Results for the "therighttool" site about D:
http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/languages/d

It seems lot of people thinks "This language is likely to be a passing fad"
about D.

Bye,
bearophile

Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:18 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:
 Results for the "therighttool" site about D:
 http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/languages/d

 It seems lot of people thinks "This language is likely to be a passing fad"
about D.


Interesting.  But they seem to think the same about a lot of languages
that don't yet have a shelf of books in every bookstore devoted to
them:
http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/statements/this-language-is-likely-to-be-a-passing-fad

(Ruby onward, the actual score for "this is a fad" must be relatively
low, because it doesn't appear in the list of top attributes when you
click on the language itself.)

--bb

Neob Stojec <a a.com> writes:

Bill Baxter Wrote:

 On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:18 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:
 Results for the "therighttool" site about D:
 http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/languages/d

 It seems lot of people thinks "This language is likely to be a passing fad"
about D.


 Interesting.  But they seem to think the same about a lot of languages
 that don't yet have a shelf of books in every bookstore devoted to
 them:
 http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/statements/this-language-is-likely-to-be-a-passing-fad
 
 (Ruby onward, the actual score for "this is a fad" must be relatively
 low, because it doesn't appear in the list of top attributes when you
 click on the language itself.)
 
 --bb


They also seem to think so about PHP, wich is still the only language that is
widely supported by shared hosts, and the only language that many of people who
make small and medium sized sites know. It won't die any time soon, as much as
i want it to.

Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Results for the "therighttool" site about D:
 http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/languages/d
 
 It seems lot of people thinks "This language is likely to be a passing fad"
about D.
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


Fads are generally things that are significantly popular for at least 
some duration greater than Planck time.

D has its band of Robin Hood(s) and Many Merry (Wo)Men, and though it 
has existed for significantly longer than Planck time it can hardly be 
said that D has at any instant been significantly popular.  This is not 
a comment on the worth of D as a programming language; simply an 
observation that D does not meet the definition of a fad by any stretch.

Cheers
Justin Johansson