New slides about Go
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Oct 17 23:57:52 PDT 2010
bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
>
>> In any case, inline assembler in D is a substantial productivity booster
>> for me for anything that needs assembler. The inline assembler is also
>> quite ignorable, if you don't like it.
>
> I like the inline assembly feature of D. But language features aren't
> ignorable, in real world you often meed or have to modify or fix code written
> by other people. This means that a programmer that doesn't know assembly may
> be forced to fix bugs in modules that contain functions with asm. So every
> language feature is not free, it has a cost.
It's cost is a lot lower than writing the assembler in a separate asm file.
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