removal of cruft from D

[retard]

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:21:41 +0300, Denis Koroskin wrote:

> 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!");
> }

Or even bettar

void print(string str) {
  void _(int addr, int len) {
    asm {
      mov EAX,0x4;
      mov EBX,0x1;
      mov ECX, addr;
      mov EDX, len;
      int 0x80;
    }
  }
  _(cast(int)str.ptr, str.length);
}

void main() {
  print("hello world");
}

My asm skills are a bit rusty, though..

In this case dmd2 produces 441x larger executables than nasm :)