Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> Doesn't matter what you're making, OS or not, the choice of language > >> *certainly* carries repercussions throughout a project. Sure Linux is > >> doing fine with C. So what? It could probably be doing a lot better > >> with D. > > > > It's like if you gave the Spartan Leonidas a Henry repeating rifle - he > > still would have lost at Thermopylae. But there is little doubt that one > > Henry repeating rifle is worth a hundred spear-chucking wicker-armored > > immortals. > > Sometimes I run these crazy calculations: how much modern firepower > would be just enough to turn the odds in a classic battle? At > Thermopilae, I think two Vickers with enough ammo would have been just > about enough. Also at the Lord of the Rings 2 night castle defense, one > machine gun would have sufficed (better protection and fewer assailants). > > > Andrei
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