A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Dan]

Georg Wrede Wrote:

> Alexander Panek wrote:
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> > 
> >> Alexander Panek wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm sure going to spend some time getting a proper codebase for further
> >>> development done, and write some documentation about how to actually
> >>> get to the point of being able to write an operating system with D. I
> >>> think that's a major weak point of D, as it claims to be a systems
> >>> language, but there's no actual system written in it from scratch,
> >>> neither documentation on how to achieve that.
> >>
> >>
> >> Andrei suggested that the source code for Minix, which is fairly 
> >> small, could be transliterated from C almost directly into D. This 
> >> would neatly resolve the issue, and provide a starting point for 
> >> anyone wanting to take it further.
> > 
> > 
> > True. On the other hand, a kernel written purely in D is something that 
> > really would (and will, arr) be cool! I just find it less exciting to 
> > code "C with D", so to speak.
> > 
> > I'll make sure to announce the project, once a few milestones are 
> > finished, on the newsgroups.
> 
> Linus T. started the same way. He had a Minix running on his machine, 
> and piece by piece replaced stuff there, until no original code was 
> left. (And then he /really/ started writing Linux.)
> 
> We should do the same thing. Figuratively speaking. So, do the thing in 
> Cish D, and only when it gets bootable, start rewriting it in Real D (tm).
> 

Umm... you're an Object Oriented programmer, aren't you?

I personally love D's structs, functions and asm{}, it's much much cleaner than C and equally as powerful.