Am 11.02.2012 15:46, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
"Paulo Pinto"<pj...@progtools.org> wrote in message
news:jh5aip$1qma$1...@digitalmars.com...
I don't see the point.
C++ was the last systems programming language without GC getting market
share. I seriously doubt any new systems programming language without GC
will ever suceed.
You're looking at it backwards. The whole point is for places where you
wouldn't want GC. Those people are currently limited to the rotting,
antiquated C and...that's about it. Nobody said this "D-" would need to take
over the world. It can still succeed in a niche, and that niche is the whole
point here.
Specially since systems programming in MacOS X and Windows world is
Nobody's talking about Mac and Windows here.
So sum this up. If you need a languague without GC, C and C++ are quite
good,
That's laughable. C and C++ are convoluted anachronistic crap. The only
reason anyone still uses them is because 99.99% of language designers feel
the way you do, and as a reasult, C/C++ remain the *only* options for
certain uses.
The reason being that if you remove the GC, then you end up with some
kind of C, C++, Pascal or Ada flavour, because there is only so much you
can do without a GC.
So in the end you just get an already existing language, but with
different syntax.
So it is not worth the effort designing such languages.
More to the point, research has proven that system programming languages
with GC is possible, they have yet not become mainstream because for a
systems programming language to become mainstream it has to be choosen
from a major OS company.
One of the things I like in D is that it really feels like Sing#, the C#
Singularity version but open source.
--
Paulo
