My Long Term Vision for the D programming language
Atila Neves
atila.neves at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 13:54:26 UTC 2021
On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 09:28:08 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 06:54:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto
> wrote:
>>
>> C folks like to manage their own memory and they get it wrong
>> most of the time.
>>
>
> god help us all, if that assertion is true.
It is. It always has been, and decades and many tools later, it
still is. This isn't a matter of opinion, it's provable fact.
> (which of course, it's not).
Huge if true.
> 'some of the time', sure, even the best, but 'most of the
> time'..
All of the time, if one only counts projects of a certain size
and up. Of course it's trivial to get it right in a 50 line
program.
> that is hyperbole - except perhaps, in the case of novices.
Is Walter a novice? Am I? Is Andrei? Is \<insert name here>...?
I have no idea how or why this myth of the "sufficiently
competent C programmer" persists. They don't exist.
> The tools we have available these days, to assist C
> programmers, is something to factored in when speaking about
> the C language.
I've used them.
> btw. C powers the world.
So does burning coal, but I wouldn't recommend that either.
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