On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<gor.f.gyolchanyan@gmail.com <mailto:gor.f.gyolchanyan@gmail.com>>
wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy@yahoo.com <mailto:schveiguy@yahoo.com>>wrote:
I don't see a "problem" anywhere. The current system is
perfect for what
it needs to do.
Aside from the string problem the very existence of this debate
exposes a
fundamental flaw in the entire software engineering industry:
heavy usage
of ancient crap.
If some library is so damned hard to refresh, then something's
terribly
wrong with it. It's about damned time ancient libraries are
thrown away.
It's quite difficult to "throw out" OS libraries that you need ;)
printf is hardly the only C interface that requires
null-terminated strings.
D is a pragmatic language, not an ideological one.
-Steve
Dear Steven and Alex. By no means, I say, that every ancient technology
is to be thrown out at once. That's a technological suicide. What I
mean, that knowing, that the technology is ancient, we should at least
put some effort to gradually move away from it. If it needs to be done -
it needs to be done. If it happens to be expensive to do - oh, well. I
understand, that the human resources are limited, but hanging on ancient
technology for _too_ long is a death wish for any new technology.
--
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.