What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 19.01.2011 07:35, schrieb Vladimir Panteleev:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:09:11 +0200, Austin Hastings <ah08010-d at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/19/2011 12:50 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:16:40 +0200, Austin Hastings
>>> <ah08010-d at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> None of them worked.
>>>
>>> Most of those build utilities do exactly what make + your perl-foo do.
>>>
>>
>> No, they don't.
>
> Actually, you're probably right here. To my knowledge, there are only two build
> tools that take advantage of the -deps compiler option - rdmd and xfbuild. Older
> ones were forced to parse the source files - rebuild even used DMD's frontend
> for that. There's also a relatively new tool (dbuild oslt?) which generates
> makefiles.
>
>> That's the point: I was _getting started_ with D2. I had no strong desire to
>> reinvent the wheel, build tool-wise. But the tools I was pointed at just
>> didn't work.
>
> When a tool works for the author and many other users but not for you, you have
> to wonder where the fault really is. Besides, aren't all these tools
> open-source? The one time I had a problem with DSSS, it was easy to fix, and I
> sent the author a patch and everyone was better off from it. Isn't that how
> open-source works? :)
>

When you're learning a language, you want to get familiar with it before 
starting to fix stuff.