Thoughts from newcommer

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 19:31 +0000, thedeemon via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:57:19 UTC, Piotr Kowalski wrote:
> 
> > http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
> > 
> > Why D is not there?
> 
> Because maintainer of that site doesn't want D there, as I 
> remember from previous discussions. At some point (years ago) D 
> was present there, then removed. C and C++ programs are trivially 
> translatable to D and compiled with the same LLVM backend with 
> LDC, so whatever speed is shown by C and C++ there can usually be 
> repeated in D.
> 

It is Isaac's game, he runs it, he chooses which languages are up
there. It is not an official Debian thing as far as I know. So what the
problem?

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