A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Walter Bright]

Alexander Panek wrote:
> I'm sure going to spend some time getting a proper codebase for further
> development done, and write some documentation about how to actually
> get to the point of being able to write an operating system with D. I
> think that's a major weak point of D, as it claims to be a systems
> language, but there's no actual system written in it from scratch,
> neither documentation on how to achieve that.

Andrei suggested that the source code for Minix, which is fairly small, 
could be transliterated from C almost directly into D. This would neatly 
resolve the issue, and provide a starting point for anyone wanting to 
take it further.