Does D have too many features?

[foobar]

On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:59:43 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> 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

Irrelevant. For all I care druntime could be implemented in 
Klingon. That doesn't mean its API needs to include Klingon as 
well. That's called "encapsulation".