[Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:52:58 UTC, eles wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:16:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> This is why Microsoft killed C in their tooling. Unless they
>> change their mind, C++ will be the lowest you can get in a few
>> Visual Studio interactions.
>
> As long as you still can wrap everything in extern "C" {} for 
> mangling purposes and that you have all those standard C 
> headers... it is C++ only by the name.

That is C++ nevertheless. It would be same issue if I present you 
a D or Objective-C code snippet where the syntax overlaps with 
the one from C.

As anecdote, back when MS-DOS 5 was the latest version of MS-DOS, 
I had access to a C++ application composed of plain functions 
with pure asm bodies in a .cpp files.

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Paulo