[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Doesn't matter what you're making, OS or not, the choice of language 
>> *certainly* carries repercussions throughout a project. Sure Linux is 
>> doing fine with C. So what? It could probably be doing a lot better 
>> with D.
> 
> It's like if you gave the Spartan Leonidas a Henry repeating rifle - he 
> still would have lost at Thermopylae. But there is little doubt that one 
> Henry repeating rifle is worth a hundred spear-chucking wicker-armored 
> immortals.

Sometimes I run these crazy calculations: how much modern firepower 
would be just enough to turn the odds in a classic battle? At 
Thermopilae, I think two Vickers with enough ammo would have been just 
about enough. Also at the Lord of the Rings 2 night castle defense, one 
machine gun would have sufficed (better protection and fewer assailants).


Andrei