Am 24.04.2012 21:53, schrieb Brad Roberts: > Neither Walter (in this case) nor the question asked for re-writting > anything. In fact, that's frequently stated (again, by Walter and others, > including myself) as explicitly a non-goal. Rewriting applications to > another language is an exercise in time wasting and bug-reintroduction. > Unless you have _another_ driving reason to do a rewrite, don't. > > So, the obvious follow up.. what have I done with D where I work? Little, > other than get it on the approved list of software we can use. It's not > on the list of officially supported languages (more a defacto thing than > an actual list). But the key problem is that I haven't written any new > code in a very long time, something I miss more and more. The > applications I do touch are all pre-existing code bases, so see above > about rewriting. > > My 2 cents, > Brad >
Exactly!!! That's the point. I fully agree with this and we should take account to this in every furthur endeavours. D must be seamlessly integratable with any kind of existing codebase.