[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Walter Bright]

On 5/26/2013 12:56 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:51:24 -0700
> Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/26/2013 7:48 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Ah, if only this code were written in D... :-P
>>
>> One possibility is to write the code in D, debug it, then recode the
>> result in C to satisfy your customer.
>>
>> (Don't dismiss this out of hand - I've seen this sort of thing done
>> before. Back when I was programming hand-held LED games for Mattel
>> (remember those?)
>>
>
> You worked on those? That's really cool, my friends and I used to love
> those things (Or, actually, come to think of it, at that point they
> were all LCD, not LED - roughly late 80's IIRC). Most of the ones I had
> were "Tiger" brand though - was that part of Mattel or a competitor?
>

Yeah, I did the 'Soccer' one. For minimum wage! It was in 1978 or so. The 
display was a grid of red LEDs.