Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 09:35:55 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 06:36:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> Not sure what you mean.
>>
>> 1. It is more time consuming to write an analysis engine that 
>> can cover convoluted machinery than simple machinery.
>>
>> 2. It it more difficult to extend complex machinery than 
>> simple machinery.
>>
>> 3. It is more work to figure out adequate simple machinery to 
>> describe complex machinery, than just keeping things simple 
>> from the start.
>>
>> Not very surprising that experienced language designers try to 
>> keep the core language as simple as possible?
>
> You can lower D to Assembler and analyze that. Assembler is 
> simple, isn't it?

Are you trolling? Lowering discards information.