We are forking D

[Walter Bright]

On 1/14/2024 3:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> It caught on where it mattered, .NET interop with native libraries.

It caught on in DOS programming, too, because there was no other way. Nobody 
liked it, though. It remained ugly with duplicative code.

Needing both a "far" strlen and a "near" strlen just stunk. It was constant 
cognitive load - should this pointer be a far one or a near one?