Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 01:54 UTC
Walter Bright talks about D and his desire to improve on systems programming languages. Many successful concepts from other languages like JavaScript, PERL, Ruby, Lisp, Ada, Erlang, Python, etc., have had a significant influence on D, he says. He adds: "D 1.0 was pretty straightforward stuff, being features that were adapted from well-trod experience in other languages. D 2.0 has ventured into unexplored territory that doesn't have a track record in other languages. Since these capabilities are unproven, they generate some healthy skepticism. Only time will tell."
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2008-01-20
You do make a valid point. However, there was no physical way of doing it from what I could see. I cant remember how I did it at the time, but knowing me, I would have tried opening the file as a stream too and waiting for EOF, and that wouldn't have worked (or I wouldn't have posted this). And I tested it on C and perl, and other languages, and all provided a means of reading them.
So evidently, they weren't reading the files properly (or they were doing it in a really advanced way).
Either way, I got put off by only 1 response, that acknowledged why the problem existed, but didn't even attempt to rectify it and making the functionality possible. Its no good telling a developer you cant do it because its a 0 size, but not trying to fix the problem by working around it (or offering new functions). And I was in no way inclined to help a project, whose only compiler at the time was totally closed.
Its interesting to hear about more problems though you are having. I think that ultimately, by the time they get their act together, they will also have to compete against C++ 0x and new generations of C# and Java.
That is just my personal opinion though anyway