What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:22:36 +0200, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Folding rdmd functionality inside the compiler may risk freezing the  
> future evolution of future D build tools, so it has a risks/costs too.

Nobody needs more than one (good) D build tool. How many build tools does  
Go/Scala/Haskell/etc. have?

Regardless if it's in the compiler or not, the only real requirement is  
that the source is maintainable, and the barrier to contribute to it is  
low enough (hurray for GitHub).

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net