Dr. Dobbs

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

On Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 21:15:51 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 12:34 PM, Joshua Niehus wrote:
>> in case anyone missed it:
>>
>> http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/porting-the-d-compiler-to-win64/240144208
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14sm24/how_we_ported_the_d_compiler_to_win64/

I expected it was a pain, but... wow.  Also: glad to know I'm not 
the only one who learns new file formats by writing dumpers.  
Wouldn't it be grand if everyone could agree on some basic rules 
about these things? </pipe-dream>

-- Chris NS