Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[Walter Bright]

On 9/10/2022 12:05 PM, Don Allen wrote:
> But if I were starting with an empty editor buffer, would I choose D? Especially 
> to write a garden-variety application rather than bashing hardware registers? 
> Perhaps not. Some of that would be simply that a higher-level language would be 
> more suitable, e.g., Haskell or Scheme, both personal favorites. But some of 
> that would be due to the hangover from C and C++ that D stills exhibits. My 
> opinion: C was a bad language in 1970 and it is horrifying today. C++? Words 
> fail me, unless they are scatological. I think the more D can detach itself from 
> its C heritage and emphasize modern programming language practice (in other 
> words, take advantage of what we have learned in the last 52 years), the better.

What's amusing is when I embarked on implementing ImportC, I rediscovered all 
the things I disliked about it that had been fixed in D.