hello world in D

[Regan Heath]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:58:11 +0100, Craig Dillabaugh  
<cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca> wrote:

>>
>> Under 40 kilobytes! If you do the bare minimum you can get down to  
>> about 1 KB, but at that point, you're actually writing in mostly  
>> (inline) assembly rather than D. The code in the link though supports a  
>> majority (though certainly not all) of D's features.
>>
>>> Agreed 100%.  But newcomers don't often get that far down the chain of  
>>> thought, they just see a huge exe and wonder WTF! :)
>>
>> Indeed.
>
> Do you really think that is such a big issue?

Not really an issue, no.  But newcomers keep creating threads like this  
one time and again and who knows how many have been turned away without  
finding out the whys and wherefores.

R

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