The more interesting question

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:50 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan  
<gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

>>
>> I don't see a "problem" anywhere.  The current system is perfect for  
>> what
>> it needs to do.
>>
>
> Aside from the string problem the very existence of this debate exposes a
> fundamental flaw in the entire software engineering industry: heavy usage
> of ancient crap.
> If some library is so damned hard to refresh, then something's terribly
> wrong with it. It's about damned time ancient libraries are thrown away.

It's quite difficult to "throw out" OS libraries that you need ;)  printf  
is hardly the only C interface that requires null-terminated strings.

D is a pragmatic language, not an ideological one.

-Steve