On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 19:26:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/4/2022 5:29 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend
there wasn't prior art and keep arguing D did it first, as
usual.
Writing a paper is not doing it first.
That paper had a real
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 12:29:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Precompiled headers for C and C++ were certainly a module-like
system (I know because I wrote one), but they are horrific
On 6/4/2022 5:29 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend there wasn't prior
art and keep arguing D did it first, as usual.
Writing a paper is not doing it first.
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
Not the same as C doing the importing of C code.
[...]
Going around the horn, really doing it the hard way. Besides,
writing a paper is not the same thing as implementing a
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Stepstone did it for Objective-C with #import,
Not the same as C doing the importing of C code.
and Apple with module maps for C
and Objective-C, the modules design that preceeded C++ modules on clang.
Then we have those failed attempts at fixing C
