dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Also, if you're only writing a few K of code, D's advantages aren't that
compelling over C (and neither are C++'s). It's when the size of the
program increases that D's strengths really begin to dominate.
???? For small projects, D is still a huge improvement over C. Templates,
arrays
that "just work", a sane import system, an OO system, and most importantly a
standard library built to take advantage of these, is useful even in tiny
100-line
programs. Even if all you're doing is writing a command line app to read in
data
from a file, perform a few calculations, and print the results to stdout, do you
really want to deal with C's horribly low-level string and file I/O handling?
I suppose C is like a screwdriver. If it's in my hand, and there's just
one screw, I'll just go ahead and use it rather than go to the garage to
get my power screwdriver. More than one screw, and I'll get the power
screwdriver. If they're sitting next to each other, I'll grab the power
screwdriver regardless.
