Making D better than other programming languages (warning: rant, drivel)

[Anders F Björklund]

Daniel Keep wrote:

> I sometimes think that whilst dynamic typing can be *very* handy to
> have, it's ultimately just a panacea for a "proper" type system.  Type
> systems like C's are really annoying because you spend so much time
> telling the compiler the same thing over and over again, even when it's
> not even really important (float, double?  I don't care; I just want a
> number, damnit!).

In a portable assembler like C, the size of registers *is* important.

--anders