To avoid some linking errors

[Walter Bright]

On 10/29/2012 1:19 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
 > There's another angle to this:
 >
 > 1) It's been stated more than once that one of the goals for D is to
 > achieve a user base of over 1 million users.
 >
 > 2) I assert that there aren't more than 1 million programmers with the
 > level of expertise and experience required to understand what happens
 > during compilation to a sufficient degree that they feel comfortable with
 > the tool chains that D (and c and c++) have today.
 >
 > Conclusion, the tool chains must get more user friendly.


Stroustrup estimates "more than 3 million" C++ users in 2004.

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#number-of-C++-users

There are probably more than that many C users.