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.

C macros are a crude form of inlining. String mixins do not scale 
well in the same way as C macros (e.g. in the way they're used in 
said memcpy implementation).