Incomprehensible compiler errors

[Bernard Helyer]

On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 03:28:40 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
> Elsewhere you have said:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/50171A5B.7030002@digitalmars.com
>
>>"DFL won't compile" It doesn't matter if the fix is trivial, 
>>easy, whatever. It does not compile, therefore D sux.<
>
> If you have noted the OP has not said D sucks, the opposite:
>
>>The language is fine:<
>
> I agree that having a language perfectly finished is a good 
> thing, no one likes broken programs, but programmers can't 
> expect D to work as C89, with no changes since many years ago.
>
> A problem is that most people don't understand mangled linker 
> errors. I agree with you that linkers are not magic, but modern 
> programmers coming from many other languages are not used to 
> them and their mangled errors. So we have suggested to filter 
> those messages, to help programmers.

If they won't learn the compilation model, they won't be good 
programmers.
I'm not saying that good messages are a bad thing, but if they 
don't
understand the basic concept of source -> object file -> linker 
-> exe or dll,
then they will have a very hard time with D, pretty error messages
or no.