Simplicity and complexity of dlang

Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 9 06:40:10 PST 2016


Am Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:09:14 +0000
schrieb Chris <wendlec at tcd.ie>:

> On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 14:03:01 UTC, eugene wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 08:10:13 UTC, MGW wrote:  
> >> Having a huge project (approximately 8000 strings) and while 
> >> supporting it permanently I often find out that changes that 
> >> take place in new versions of the program (particularly in 
> >> 2.072)are too hard to perceive and use (especially the basic 
> >> notions have been replaced, for ex.:the sorting of strings).
> >> Offer:
> >> To fix the basic notions such as sorting etc.
> >> It is possible to divide the language into levels. For 
> >> example, for beginners it will permanently be a simple and 
> >> immutable and for investigations it will be another separate 
> >> branch.  
> >
> > why do you update your compiler if there are no issues with the 
> > current version?  
> 
> You have to upgrade your compiler in order to be able to keep on 
> using D in the future. Else your project will be frozen in time.

The OP is looking for "a DMD for beginners, that is permanently
immutable". I think the last release of DMD 1 would fit that
shoe in a half serious, half joking way.

-- 
Marco



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