About the Expressiveness of D

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 17:08:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/3/13 11:55 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 02:44:15 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> If we did datetime all over again, I'd give a budget of 2000 
>>> lines for
>>> all functionality. I bet the solution would be better.
>>
>> I think you are massively underestimating the complexity and 
>> subtleties
>> of dates and time.
>
> May as well. I recall before I approved std.datetime I looked 
> at the implementation sizes of similar functionality in other 
> languages; they were all rather bulky, but std.datetime was at 
> the high end of the range.
>

Boost datetime is 27k.  Just the headers comes to 17k.  A 2k 
budget for a date time library is unreasonable unless you don't 
want anyone using D for anything serious involving dates and 
times.  They are complex and require a lot of code to get right.

Perhaps 34k is too large but 2k is laughable.