Revamping associative arrays

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:37:36 +0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Bill Baxter:
>> It shouldn't be harder to port D1 code to D2 than C code!<
>
> In the world for every line of D1 code you may want to port to D2, there  
> are probably 100 or 1000+ lines of C code that you may want to port to  
> D2, so the situation is not the same. Keeping compatibility with C is  
> far more important than keeping compatibility with D1.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Why would you want to port C code to D, if you can easily interface with  
it?