Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 22:37:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/25/2014 7:36 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Yeah, it worked really great for C.
>>
>> Developers created C compilers in other systems and never 
>> ported lint
>> as part of the process.
>>
>> End result being a portable macro assembler, as safe as, 
>> writing in pure assembly.
>
> This is hyperbole. C's type system made it far safer than 
> assembler.

Of course you are right about it, but that is how I personally 
look to C,
given my experience with Turbo Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon for 
the same purposes.

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Paulo