Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 21:06:40 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:59:10 -0400, Mehrdad 
> <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What about SNN.lib, which has no source code (even assembly 
>> code) available whatsoever?
>>
>> It's currently impossible to make an executable with DMD that 
>> *ONLY* contains code you want to put in there. SNN.lib /has/ 
>> to be in there... and it's certainly not FOSS...
>
> So...  Use GDC instead?
>
> -Steve


See the last paragraph of this response:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jod1sg$2pma$1@digitalmars.com?page=2#post-mailman.465.1336596027.24740.digitalmars-d:40puremagic.com