Impressed

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:52:36 +0200
"Stuart" <stugol at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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;

That's just plain hyperbole.