Adam D. Ruppe Wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:00:17PM -0400, Steve Teale wrote: > > Can this group come up with a proper, sober (OK, I'm not), case for D. > > It is a better C; D is what C++ wishes it was. > > My biggest love of D is two words: nested functions. I tend to write it > as if it was just C with the suck yanked out. > > D2 is a better D1; you can write it in a similar way, but get even more > help from the compiler to catch errors. > > D is the safe AND convenient language. > > > There isn't a decent debugger for either Windows or Linux. > > I find gdb works well enough for me on linux. I use the -gc "pretend to > be C" option. But I rarely really need the debugger, thanks to the compiler. > > -- > Adam D. Ruppe > http://arsdnet.net
Yes, you're right about not needing a debugger. Walter's compilers have always given you a good idea of where you should look. But there are lots of potential users who do not know how to debug without an IDE debugger. After all, the seat-of-the-pants way is quite hard work.