On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:50 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<[email protected]>wrote:
I don't see a "problem" anywhere. The current system is perfect for
what
it needs to do.
Aside from the string problem the very existence of this debate exposes a
fundamental flaw in the entire software engineering industry: heavy usage
of ancient crap.
If some library is so damned hard to refresh, then something's terribly
wrong with it. It's about damned time ancient libraries are thrown away.
It's quite difficult to "throw out" OS libraries that you need ;) printf
is hardly the only C interface that requires null-terminated strings.
D is a pragmatic language, not an ideological one.
-Steve
