On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:04:50 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<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.

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Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.