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What I would like more people to understand is, the NSA planting backdoors into everyone's accounts and software makes everyone less safe to both interior and exterior attacks. So …

C++11 adds a little welcome syntaxic sugar to the language. Yet C++ is nowhere near supporting functional style as well as D does. It really doesn't look and feel the same.

> Or to put it another way: the Soviet government didn't start out surveilling their citizens before they just murdered all the ones who were considered dissidents. They started do…

> However, I don't see any direct evidence of police state action; no smoking gun if you will. So I believe it's better to confine ourselves to openly known facts & working to roll…

Between Word and Wordperfect, the latter was the better product. But Word was easier to use for simple documents.

I don't think there are problems with 64 bit versions, but many computers are still 32 bits. The PC I use right now is 32 bits and I don't feel the urge to buy a new one. So I supp…

The drop after 2007/2008 probably corresponds to the Phobos/Tango debacle, and the fact that Walter decided to fork with D2. One of the main problems was, he was almost the sole co…

What is the definition of a system PL ?

Probably because there is no need for it ? If WaitGroup waits for the end of all tasks to continue, there is map/reduce which should do the trick.

Agreed, D is a much bigger and complex language than Go. Comparing the standard libraries, Phobos doesn't look far behind Go in scope. There are big holes though, like crypto, whic…

D is pretty strong at concurrency today. See for instance http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1609144 and http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/parallelism.html