"so" <s...@so.so> wrote in message news:op.v3ivsvb8mpw3zg@localhost.localdomain... > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:32:17 +0300, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> > wrote: > >> Translating C header >> files to D is a pain and time consuming, and it would benefit us all to >> have a >> place to go to find common C headers translated to D so that such work >> doesn't >> have to be duplicated. > > With the second compiler, there won't be any need for us to do anything, > like C++ we could use C libraries seamlessly.
The only reason C++ is able to do that is because C++ (realistically, even if not *technically*) is a proper superset of C. D isn't.