Sorry

[BLS]

Hi Bill,
You got it. Nothing else to say.
Thanks Björn

Bill Baxter schrieb:
> he_the_great wrote:
> 
>> Now I am still new to programming, but I don't see the need to 
>> implement Java style anything. Why do we need easy translation from 
>> Java to D? 
> 
> 
> Because there's about a gazillion lines of Java code out there.  Whether 
> you like Java or don't, Java is very very popular, and there are tons of 
> useful libraries and applications written in it.  Also, as you noted 
> below, the syntax is pretty similar.  Probably the most similar to D of 
> any currently popular language.
> 
>> D isn't trying to be an improvement on Java (eg C#), but an 
>> improvement on C. 
> 
> 
> But Java was also trying to be an improvement on C/C++.
> 
> 
>> Not only that but Java is a bloated object only language.
>> I also have found, other than GUI stuff, Java is very easy to 
>> translate into D. I know I haven't programed anything extremely 
>> complicated, but the basics never really change.
> 
> 
> The only reason people are interested in automatically translating Java 
> to D is because if such a thing existed, it would be possible to 
> basically to increase the amount of tested, quality code accessible to D 
> users by 100X or more, practically overnight.
> 
> --bb