A gentle critque..

[Hasan Aljudy]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
>> May I repeat a portion of my post please ...
>>
>>     "a new utility that can **help** us automate
>>      translation of C/C++ headers into D source code"
>>
>> I know that 100% automated translation is not practical. However, as
>> DigitalMars already has a C/C++ parser that works, I was thinking that a
>> tool based on that parser to created a best-effort translation and
>> highlighted that which needs human effort might be a useful addition 
>> to the
>> D tool set. Whatever you have now as a C/C++ parser has got to be better
>> than writing a new one from scratch. I'm not asking for the source 
>> code for
>> that parser, just a tool that would output something that could be 
>> tweaked
>> into D code by either (or both) another tool or person.
> 
> 
> One of my concerns about me writing such a tool is that people will have 
> too high expectations of it, and when it fails to deliver 100% automated 
> conversion, it'll give the rest of D a bad image.
> 
> The first thing someone new to D will do is try to run the converter 
> across all their C header files. The converter will fail miserably. 
> They'll just dismiss D as a buggy piece of ****.

Don't include with dmd. Just put it on dsource, disguised as "yet 
another conversion tool project" ;)
or something like that.

ok, dsource is a bad idea, because the tool won't be open source.

Still, you can create a lame page on geocities and put the tool up for 
download.
Don't say it's Walter Bright, just pick a random nick name.