Impressed

[Stuart]

On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 02:31:42 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
>
> In all fairness, I think C still has its place. The advantage 
> of writing software in C is that when you want to port it to a 
> new platform/architecture, there will almost always be a C 
> compiler available. This isn't the case for D yet - but 
> hopefully will be in the future. But note, even then, that D 
> only targets 32-bit architectures and up, while C can handle 
> 16-bit architectures.

Ah. So, in essence, C has a purpose because [a] it supports 
incredibly obsolete hardware that nobody in their right mind 
would be using; and [b] nobody's ported D to MacOS (or whatever) 
yet.

Not a particularly good argument, to my mind ;)