To avoid some linking errors

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 20:59:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 1:34 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> As Andrei stated, the linker's native language is encrypted 
>> klingon.
>
> It baffles me that programmers would find "undefined symbol" 
> hard to make sense of.

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;-)

Seriously though, it's irrelevant. The fact is a lot of 
programmers, especially new programmers or ones from programming 
languages that don't use linkers find link errors scary and 
confusing.

Pretending otherwise gets us nowhere.

Saying it baffles you why things are this way gets us nowhere.

Saying that "they should understand" gets us nowhere.