tooling quality and some random rant

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/13/11 6:59 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
>
>> In C++, you get essentially the same thing from g++:
>>
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
>> (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Lot of people come here because they want a compiler+language better than C++ :-)

In many ways D looks and feels like a newer language, so I agree that 
probably we shouldn't use C++ as a yardstick here. It would be a cop out 
to be relaxed about something because C++ has it too.

Andrei