Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/16/2014 10:52 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> I think C is pretty close to a 98% solution for system level programming.

Not at all in my view. It has two miserable failures:

1. C's Biggest Mistake

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cs-biggest-mistake/228701625

This made C far, far more difficult and buggy to work with than it should have been.


2. 0 terminated strings

This makes it surprisingly difficult to do performant string manipulation, and 
also results in a excessive memory consumption.


> Granted, it relies on macros to reach that.

And it's a crummy macro system, even for its day.


My above remarks should be put in context of when C was designed. As with the 
Titanic, it is unfair to apply modern sensibilities to it. But if we were to, a 
vast amount of C could be dramatically improved without changing its fundamental 
nature.