tooling quality and some random rant

[Paulo Pinto]

Hi,

still you don't convice me.

So what language features has C that are missing from D and prevent a linker 
to be written in
D?

The issue is not if I can beat Walter, the issue is that we have a language 
which on its official
home page states lots of reasons for using it instead of C and C++, and its 
creator decides
to use C when porting the linker to an high level language.

So doesn't Walter belive in its own language?

As for your challenge, actually I am looking for a job currently, how much 
can I ask for?

--
Paulo

"Gary Whatmore" <no at spam.sp> wrote in message 
news:ij8spi$ic0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Paulo Pinto Wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am sorry, but I don't belive it.
>>
>> Many other systems programming languages that atempted to displace C and
>> C++, have
>> the toolchain built in its languages, after the compilers were 
>> bootstrapped,
>> as anyone
>> with enough compiler knowledge will surely tell you.
>>
>> And D's linker must first be written in C, to make it easy to rewrite in 
>> D?!
>>
>> A linker is not science fiction, it is just a program that binds object
>> files and libraries together
>> to produce an executable. Any programming language able to manipulate 
>> files
>> and binary
>> data, can be used to create a linker.
>
> If you want, you can prove this by starting a competive linker project. 
> Probably both Digitalmars and Microsoft have done everything they can to 
> make competition as hard as possible by leaving the object file format 
> undocumented and filled the implementation with weird corner cases to make 
> reverse engineering extremely hard. Microsoft even does minor changes in 
> every version to break compatibility.
>
> Even if a 10 man team uses some open source linker as a base and writes 
> the linker in D, you can't beat Walter. The productivity of hardcore 
> domain experts is nearly two orders of magnitude better than that of 
> novices. The toolchain issues will be history by the end of this year.
>
> - G.W.