Worst Phobos documentation evar!

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 31 13:28:07 PST 2014


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> > On 12/31/14 9:17 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >> On 2014-12-30 02:51, Walter Bright wrote:
> >> 
> >>> (And actually, the Ddoc macro system very closely resembles the
> >>> one used by make, as that is a simple and effective one, well
> >>> known by programmers.)
> >> 
> >> "make" has to be the worst tool ever created. I not just me that
> >> has that opinion [1]. That you even consider this as a positive
> >> argument is baffling me. Or rather not, if you like "make" I can
> >> see why you like Ddoc.
> >> 
> >> [1] http://www.conifersystems.com/whitepapers/gnu-make/
> >> 
> > 
> > Agreed. I try to avoid makefiles as much as I can.
> > 
> > And it's no wonder why there are so many alternatives (rake, nake,
> > etc.)
> 
> ... Neither of which successful :o)

Yeah, just like D is still floundering in obscurity while inferior
languages like C/C++ continue to flourish. *shrug*


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