On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:20:56 +0200, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2011/01/18/what-makes-a-programming-language-good/
So, why do users still get a scary linker error when they try to compile a
program with more than 1 module?
IMO, sticking to the C-ism of "one object file at a time" and dependency
on external build tools / makefiles is the biggest mistake DMD did in this
regard. Practically everyone to whom I recommended to try D hit this
obstacle. rdmd is nice but I see no reason why this shouldn't be in the
compiler. Think of the time wasted by build tool authors (bud, rebuild,
xfbuild and others, and now rdmd), which could have been put to better use
if this were handled by the compiler, who could do it much easier (until
relatively recently it was very hard to track dependencies correctly).
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:vladi...@thecybershadow.net
