What would you rewrite in D?

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Oct 5 21:19:40 PDT 2010


"sybrandy" <sybrandy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:i8g8oi$1hv6$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Just asking out of curiosity.  With all the great language features, I'm 
> sure that many of you have thought about this.
>
> For me, I figured a good start would be your basic Unix/Linux/BSD 
> utilities, like cat and grep.  I figure it may make the code easier to 
> read and maintain as well as potentially improve the quality of the 
> software.  Of course, most of these are so old they're probably quite bug 
> free, but some probably could use a rewrite.  Some may even benefit for 
> threading.
>

Not that I would want to do it myself, but I'd like to see LLMV and 
Scintilla moved to D.

But really, just about anything in C/C++ that I might ever want to modify. 
If I never have to touch another line of C/C++ it'll be too soon.




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