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Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 17 22:01:20 PDT 2014


On 5/14/2014 2:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/14/14, 6:33 AM, Yuriy wrote:
>> 4. I consider D a killemall language, that may be potentially used on
>> tiny AVRs and PICs, where polymorphism might be welcome, but an extra
>> pointer for each class instance may become a blocker. I know, thats
>> fantasy now, but i think it's crucial to keep this concept of D.
>
> Agreed at least with the "killing the mall" part :o).

While I agree with Andrei's agreements (!), the rationale for the current 
approach is to make it relatively straightforward to translate existing Java 
code into D. There was a fair amount of this in the early days of D, I'm not 
sure how much of that lately.



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