Rank The D Programming Language

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Wed Jul 25 10:34:24 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:26:53 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/24/2012 8:58 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> > I think C++ got 76% of the vote on this one. Why would you ever
> > write something in C++ with the intent of rewriting it in
> > something else later?
> 
> I don't get that, either.

Maybe they wanted to rewrite it D later but had to write in C++ at the time 
because their boss made them or because they needed a library from C++ that 
would be too difficult to use with D by simply adding a few bindings (e.g. a GUI 
library)? Still, that is a bit weird.

- Jonathan M Davis


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