tooling quality and some random rant

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> That's not the compiler, that's the linker. I don't know what linker DMD 
>> uses on OSX, but on Windows it uses OPTLINK which is written in 
>> hand-optimized Asm so it's really hard to change. But Walter's been 
>> converting it to C (and maybe then to D once that's done) bit-by-bit (so 
>> to speak), so linker improvements are at least on the horizon.
>>
>> ...
>
> Why C and not directly D?
>
> It is really bad adversting for D to know that when its creator came 
> around to
> rewrite the linker, Walter decided to use C instead of D.
>

That's jumping to conclusions. C is little more than a high-level assembler. 
That's why it's a reasonable first step up from Asm. Once it's in C and 
cleaned up, that's the time for it to move on to D
.