A gentle critque..

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Finally about whether it's worth it to be able to call C++ code, I'd like to
> point to the example of Fortran.  It was superceded by better languages with
> better syntax many many years ago, but people still use it.  I hear a lot of
> people saying "we're better off without all that old junky C++ code anyway".
> But the fact of the matter is that nobody in the real world has the time or
> budget to go back and rewrite all their old code (that already works and has
> been debugged) just because it would be easier to read in a new language.  Most
> numerical work is still based on lots of legacy fortran code, even if the front
> end code is now written in C or C++ or Python or what have you.   It just makes
> no sense to rewrite gobs and gobs of stuff that works.
> 
> Gotta go so there's no time to finish my point, but there are some interesting
> parallels in this debate with the migration away from Fortran, I think.  

Those are good parallels, and it's good you brought that up. Working C++ 
legacy code is not going away and is not going to be translated to D. 
What will happen is *new* code will be done in D.