removal of cruft from D

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:04:54 +0300, Pelle Månsson  
<pelle.mansson at gmail.com> wrote:

> dsimcha wrote:
>> == Quote from retard (re at tard.com.invalid)'s article
>>> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:14:54 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> as opposed to the
>>>> Java way of having to use 5 different classes just to read in a file
>>>> line by line in the default character encoding.
>>> That's a library issue. Has nothing to do with the language.
>>  I agree completely, but for all practical purposes basic parts of the  
>> standard
>> library that are used by almost everyone are part of the language.   
>> Heck, in many
>> languages (D being one of them) you can't even write a canonical hello  
>> world
>> program w/o the standard lib.
> Sure you can!
>
> extern (C) int puts(char *);
> void main() {
>      puts("Hello world!\0".dup.ptr);
> }
>
> Pretty!

Even simpler:

extern (C) int printf(const(char)* str, ...);

void main() {
    printf("Hello, World!");
}