[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:51:24 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/26/2013 7:48 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Ah, if only this code were written in D... :-P
> 
> One possibility is to write the code in D, debug it, then recode the
> result in C to satisfy your customer.
> 
> (Don't dismiss this out of hand - I've seen this sort of thing done
> before. Back when I was programming hand-held LED games for Mattel
> (remember those?) 
> 

You worked on those? That's really cool, my friends and I used to love
those things (Or, actually, come to think of it, at that point they
were all LCD, not LED - roughly late 80's IIRC). Most of the ones I had
were "Tiger" brand though - was that part of Mattel or a competitor?