D slower than C++ in compile time

Bruce Adams tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk
Tue Feb 19 16:00:09 PST 2008


On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:38:29 -0000, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Ty Tower wrote:
>> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
>> Dil     DIL   Hmm in English Dill is a stupid person as well as a herb
>>
>> DLL is windows Dynamically Linked Library
>>
>> It all seems a little close don't you think ?
>>
>
> dil is not dill (notice the extra "L" you've added at the end?)
> dil is a Turkish work for "language" so it represents the intention of
> the project (a D language compiler).
> Do you always assume that everything you read online is in English?
> that wouldn't be a smart assumption as most of the world has a different
> native language than English.
> would you also assume [for example] that "Ubuntu" is some kind of
> English word/slang?
>
> -- Yigal

Anyone else spot the irony in making that complaint in English?



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