On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:20:20 +1200, Nick B wrote: > On 18/09/2010 12:28 a.m., Justin Johansson wrote: >> On 17/09/2010 6:48 PM, Nick B wrote: >>> On 16/09/2010 5:58 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>>> A coworker asked me where he could find a brief document of D's >>>> design principles. This was after I'd mentioned the "no function >>>> hijacking" stance. >>>> >>>> >>> there is no one, true, only to be used, library. D supports diversity. >> >> Using Walter's words this is a "trite platitude". >> >> Comments such as these are akin to saying "D is carbon neutral" without >> a supporting argument. >> >> Can you please support your argument with more substance, i.e. more >> sausage and less sizzle. :-) >> >> > Is the fact there are two libraries, and not one, or twenty, a strength, > and not a weakness, of the language and the D community. > > For example, see this list of (approx 100) C++ libraries: > http://www.trumphurst.com/cpplibs1.html#9 > > I think that this large number of libraries, just leads to fragmentation > of effort by the C++ community. > > Nick B
I gather that you are quite new to programming. Check /usr/lib on any linux system -- or check CPAN. Libraries are rife, and for good reason. And this has nothing whatsoever to do with Phobos vs. Tango, which are far from the only libraries for D -- their significance is that they are *core* libraries, akin to libc in C.