DLang Spec rewrite (?)

[Walter Bright]

On 5/25/2013 5:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> My attitude on DDoc has evolved in threes:
>
> 3 minutes: "wtf is this crap"
> 3 hours: "this sucks"
> 3 days: "grumble I'll make do with this although it totally sucks"
> 3 months: "this is pretty darn good"

Thanks for the chuckle!


> DDoc is simple for what it does, it has somehow hit a sweet spot.

It's not totally random. I've designed one macro language before (ABEL), and 
have implemented 3 (ABEL, Make, and C preprocessor), so I knew what I wanted. 
Ddoc is very similar to Make's macro system.

BTW, the C preprocessor takes the cake for being both horrendously complicated 
(most implementations take about 10 years to get right) and woefully inadequate.