tooling quality and some random rant

[Walter Bright]

Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
> "Why use C instead of the D programming language? Certainly, D is usable for 
> such low level coding and, when programming at this level, there isn't a 
> practical difference between the two. The problem is that the system to 
> build Optlink uses some old tools that only work with an old version of the 
> object file format. The D compiler uses newer obj format features, the C 
> compiler still uses the old ones. It was just easier to use the C compiler 
> rather than modify the D one. Once the source is all in C, it will be 
> trivial to shift it over to D and the modern tools." 
> 
> http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2009/11/assembler_to_c.html

Yeah, I forgot to mention that Optlink relies on some tools that work only with 
an obsolete version of the omf.