Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

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On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:45:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:37:50AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/1/2013 9:53 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of
>> >preprocessed C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases 
>> >substituted
>> >with their final target, templates fully expanded, all 
>> >syntactic
>> >sugar lowered, with the original code lines in comments, so 
>> >that you
>> >can see exactly how your code was translated, and whether it 
>> >matches
>> >what you *think* it does.  This would also be invaluable for
>> >debugging, as then it will map to the assembly code much 
>> >better,
>> >which will help you trace where things went wrong.
>> 
>> I do this with a debug build of the compiler. Using --b will 
>> give
>> you the expression trees sent to the back end.
>
> It'd be nice if this was documented somewhere. ;-)
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So your saying I have to have the debug build of dmd and run it 
on my code with --b and somewhere it will output the expanded 
code?