How can D become adopted at my company?

mta`chrono chrono at mta-international.net
Tue Apr 24 13:40:16 PDT 2012


Am 24.04.2012 21:53, schrieb Brad Roberts:
> Neither Walter (in this case) nor the question asked for re-writting 
> anything.  In fact, that's frequently stated (again, by Walter and others, 
> including myself) as explicitly a non-goal.  Rewriting applications to 
> another language is an exercise in time wasting and bug-reintroduction.  
> Unless you have _another_ driving reason to do a rewrite, don't.
> 
> So, the obvious follow up.. what have I done with D where I work?  Little, 
> other than get it on the approved list of software we can use.  It's not 
> on the list of officially supported languages (more a defacto thing than 
> an actual list).  But the key problem is that I haven't written any new 
> code in a very long time, something I miss more and more.  The 
> applications I do touch are all pre-existing code bases, so see above 
> about rewriting.
> 
> My 2 cents,
> Brad
> 

Exactly!!! That's the point. I fully agree with this and we should take
account to this in every furthur endeavours. D must be seamlessly
integratable with any kind of existing codebase.


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