Trust about D programming.

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 11:41:14 UTC, Sergei Nosov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 11:17:32 UTC, MMj wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 10:45:27 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 09:27:22 UTC, MMj wrote:
>>>> Hello Folks.
>>>> How are you?
>>>> Excuse me, I need a trust about D programming and C, In your 
>>>> opinion D can be a replace for C?
>>>> Why a user should use D?
>>>> Please let me know your opinion.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> It really depend on what you try to achieve. But in many case 
>>> it is a viable alternative. In other, things need to be 
>>> ironed out.
>>
>> I saw D wiki and understand some goals about but Can you tell 
>> me why you choose D and not C?
>
> From my perspective, D cannot replace C in sense "you can throw 
> C away". Well, maybe it could theoretically, but not 
> practically.
>
> But the trend is C is becoming more and more a high-level 
> assembler. Things like mapping to a register, no hidden costs, 
> "you can basically see the assembler when programming in C".
>

This is only true in very simple processor architectures.

In modern optimizing C compilers targeting modern CPUs, C no 
longer maps to the hardware as much as many C coders still think 
it does.

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Paulo