Well, it's been a total failure

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:i6o3c3$tep$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 09/14/2010 05:41 AM, retard wrote:
>> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:44:35 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> It's also nice to eat our own dogfood, and do something useful with
>>> std.zip.
>>
>> And D is a pragmatic language? Listen man, you the Superman of the D
>> world and instead of fighting crimes, you're always knitting socks.
>
> Well ideally we'd eat our dogfood by bootstrapping dmd. I think that'll 
> happen at some point in the future due to the nice ddmd ongoing effort. 
> Walter is itching to use D's power in day-to-day work.
>
> There is a fuzzy limit regarding what should be a script vs. a program. 
> For example, rdmd did start as a script. Probably it still could be, but 
> it's involved and specialized enough to justify writing it in D. My guess 
> is that the script would have more lines and would be much more difficult 
> to maintain than the D program.
>

It also wouldn't work for us Windows users without having to deal with a 
PITA like MSYS or Cygwin. (I'm not saying we do or don't need a D-based zip 
tool. I'm just saying I'm glad rdmd isn't a shell script.)