Will I try again? and also C header files.

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 07:18:38 UTC, SeanVn wrote:
> I hope now things have settled down.

They have, considerably.


> I will look at the language for a couple of days.  I presume I 
> now only have to look at D2 and Phobos and not the previous 4 
> way split of D1/D2/Phobos/Tango.

Correct


> I have a specific engineering application I want to develop. I 
> want to pick a programming language that will give me the 
> cleanest and most maintainable code possible.  I want to use 
> the IUP GUI library.  That is a shared library that has C 
> headers.  I presume I will be able to call the dll functions 
> easily in D2?

Yes, shouldn't be any problems there.


> Maybe I will only have to make some minimal changes to the C 
> header files to get them to work with D2?

As Jacob mentioned, there are tools to do this for you. Even 
without them though, simple header files are pretty trivial to 
convert.