What's C's biggest mistake?

[Sean Kelly]

retard Wrote:

> Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:54:18 -0500, bearophile wrote:
> 
> > Today D is not a replacement of C, because of its GC and few other
> > things (I don't think today you can use D to create 1200 bytes long
> > binaries that run on an Arduino CPU), but maybe a reduced-D can be used
> > for that purpose too.
> 
> Where can I download the compiler for this reduced-D? Let's be honest - 
> even with upx exe compressor the binaries are huge. If you have micro-
> controllers with 64 to 128 kB of ROM, the best you can do with dmd is a 
> 'hello world'. Unless a better fork of the language is made (without 
> extra typeinfo, with optional gc - we need a compiler switch, compiling 
> the stdlib is a PITA, and without template bloat -> smart linker, not 
> some legacy crap made with assembler). A single version of D can't serve 
> the tastes of all audiences.

Yeah.  Even without the GC binaries contain a good bit of TypeInfo data.  I think we're getting to a point where this could be left out and the language would still be pretty much the same though.