On 27-07-2012 20:50, Stuart wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 15:27:58 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 27-07-2012 14:56, Stuart wrote:
In any case, isn't it the job of the compiler to unroll loops? Why
should the coder have to do this himself? Unless of course he's using a
thin shitty wrapper over assembly language that claims falsely to be a
high-level language - i.e. C.
It was a high-level language at the time it was created.
Quite possibly. But the definition of "high level" has since changed,
and C no longer qualifies. Yet proponents of C/C++ continue to froth at
the mouth and claim it's a decent language.
Why is D so awesome? Because it's not C.
In all fairness, I think C still has its place. The advantage of writing
software in C is that when you want to port it to a new
platform/architecture, there will almost always be a C compiler
available. This isn't the case for D yet - but hopefully will be in the
future. But note, even then, that D only targets 32-bit architectures
and up, while C can handle 16-bit architectures.
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