Does D have too many features?

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 22:57:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/3/2012 8:13 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> Well, they are also used in druntime, in core.stdc.math
>> BTW I *hate* that module, I don't know why it exists. Even 
>> worse, it seems to be
>> growing -- people are adding more things to it.
>
> It's there simply because all the Standard C headers should be 
> represented. It should not get anything that is not in Standard 
> C. Ditto for all the other stuff in core.stdc.
>
> It's there to make converting C code to D code easier.

I agree that this is a good enough reason in itself.  On top of 
that, the ANSI C stdlib is a subset of the POSIX API, which is 
*very* useful to have in druntime.  Phobos (and druntime itself, 
of course), uses it for everything platform-specific.

-Lars