System programming in D (Was: The God Language)

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 14:44:45 UTC, Don wrote:
> I don't think the situation is any different with DMC. I think 
> that if D isn't a systems programming lanugage, neither is C or 
> C++ without vendor-specific extensions.

You're right... I've never extensively used a C/C++ compiler 
without similar extensions, though. The fact that major vendors 
come up with their own extensions to do many of the same features 
shows that they might have better been standardized.