A summary of D's design principles

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Sep 28 14:32:48 PDT 2010


Walter Bright:

> > In C# you are able to create and compile programs at runtime.
> 
> Any language can do that.

I meant that in modern dotnet C# the compiler is a library, you import it, you have a human API to build an AST and then you are able to compile and run it. The 'compiler as library' is something I have suggested for D too, and you said no. Anyway, I am not asking for this feature now.

Bye,
bearophile


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