You do understand that you're replying to the founder of D, right? Walter put his whole life into D. Can we please show a little compassion for someone's life's work?
While I appreciate the kind words, I am not looking for compassion. D must stand entirely on its own merits. D has already succeeded quite spectacularly:
1. we have a wonderful D community which has been utterly indispensible
2. D is part of the Gnu Compiler Collection
3. D has been accepted into the HOPL conference, which is quite an honor
A couple things we are particularly proud of:
4. D has been used by companies to make a LOT of money. They've told me that D is their secret weapon. :-)
5. contributing to the D community has enabled many people to advance into well paying and high status careers
6. D innovations regularly find their way into other languages
TDPL sits next to KNR on my shelf
The response clearly is reasonable, but no reasonable person would say that on someone’s face. So I don’t think Marta _moreno really knew about Walter