On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:28 -0700 Brad Roberts <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/13 9:49 PM, Peter Williams wrote: > > > > Yes, if D aspires to be a systems programming language it can't keep > > relying on wrappers around C/C++ libraries (especially C++). In the > > long term, it should be D all the way down to the OS API. > > You wrote this as if not using c and c++ libraries is a predicate for > being a systems language. It's not. > > What's with the D community's (yes, I'm over generalizing some) > not-invented-here syndrome? Conditioned aversion to C++? (half-serious) > Avoiding the incredible body of existing > code out there that's accumulated over the decades is foolhardy and > narrow sighted. Are all c and c++ libraries great bodies of code, > absolutely not. Is some of the code that predates D worth reusing, > yup. > > Sigh, > Brad >
