Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 1/23/2012 1:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright"<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote in message
>> news:jfj0ao$3q9$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> Another way of looking at it is Phobos should provide snap-together
>>> building blocks, not trivial combinations of them.
>>
>> So whenever there's trivia to be done, it should be cluttering up the
>> *user's* code instead?
>
> It's a very successful strategy used in Unix, which does not have a tool 
> for everything, but one can easily construct a tool for everything by 
> stringing together components with |

It works in Unix because the building blocks are (mostly) well-designed and 
cover all needed use-cases.

I think you'd have a hard time finding a Unix parallel to "Scatter 
to!blah(blah) all over your code in every single call to every fucking 
standard function that involves a string whenever you want your code to deal 
with wstring or dstring instead, or invent your own PhobosPlus on top of 
Phobos to paper up all the existing use-case holes." If you did, I'd 
probably consider it a blemish where a Unix component screwed up with 
modularity.