How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 10:00:48 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 09:41:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> Like everybody here, I hope that Bastiaan efforts will pay in 
>> the long term, but I'm not as optimistic as many here that 
>> this will end as a success story, as I'm not sure that his 
>> teammates will really enjoy working the automatically 
>> generated D code as much as on the original source code...
>
> Yes but their job is to make boats floating (like said Veelo at 
> Dconf 2017, not writing compilers. Pascal lags behind and not a 
> few, in term of expressiveness.
> Also transpilation of Pascal to something else is simple 
> because no semantic is needed.

Indeed, my expectation is that I don’t even need to maintain a 
symbol table. Stefan Koch disagrees with me though, and I’m on a 
quest to prove him wrong ;-)