Does D have too many features?

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.net
Tue May 8 07:59:42 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:48:27 UTC, foobar wrote:
> [...], what if I find it useful to use e.g. FORTRAN code, 
> should the relevant functions also be in the stdlib?

No, FORTRAN has absolutely nothing to do with D.  C, on the other 
hand, does.  Both druntime and Phobos depend heavily on the C 
stdlib.  The GC uses malloc/free, std.stdio.File is a wrapper 
around FILE*, etc.

-Lars


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