D vs Java

[Anders F Björklund]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:

>>Of course, then you also need to make sure that the receiving end of
>>those programs have the correct version of runtime library installed,
>>something that is a Huge Pain for distributing C++ programs on Linux...
> 
> void fix() {
>   if (user.experiencing == HugePainWithLibraries) {
>     auto GentooLinux = download(www.gentoo.org/stage3);
>     try {
>       user.install(GentooLinux);
>     }

Well, maybe I was overstating the problem. It's easy enough to fix
the dependencies on libstdc++.so.5 or libstdc++.2.9 or whatever, if
you have a Linux distribution with a reasonable ports/package manager.
(all of Gentoo and Ubuntu and Fedora qualifies, as far as I'm concerned)

--anders