On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 at 19:21:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Even worse is all the millions of man-hours wasted in (usually
incorrectly) trying to make C code portable to theoretical C
compilers that have ints larger than 32 bits, etc., trying to
ensure that modern C code will work on a 16 bit C compiler, and
on and on.
By defining these problems out of existence, D achieves a major
simplification in terms of programming bugs that are far more
theoretical than real.
You know, defining a problem out of existence is a damn good way
of solving the problem!
