• Steve Hite <Steve_member pathlink.com> May 23 2005
• "Jim H" <jhewesNOSPAM ix.netcom.com> May 24 2005

Steve Hite <Steve_member pathlink.com> writes:

I certainly don't have the programming skills to do the task in a reasonable
amount of time but I think you get a whole bunch of growth and appreciation for
what Walter has created by being able to have the D Language on par with VB.Net,
C#, C++ and JScript.Net.

Walter, I've followed your work since the first Zortech C++ compiler and I swear
you are one of the most the prolific compiler/language deveopers the programming
community has ever seen.   IMO, the D Language needs a leverage like the .Net
Framework can provide.  I truly wish I had the requisite skills because I'd do
it in a heartbeat.  I for one would use D over C# and C++ on .Net.

Continued success,

Steve

"Jim H" <jhewesNOSPAM ix.netcom.com> writes:

"Steve Hite" <Steve_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:d6togc$2ab0$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I certainly don't have the programming skills to do the task in a 
 reasonable
 amount of time but I think you get a whole bunch of growth and 
 appreciation for
 what Walter has created by being able to have the D Language on par with 
 VB.Net,
 C#, C++ and JScript.Net.


If I were going to write a program to run on the .NET platform, I think I'd 
just go ahead and use C#.



I like D because it has modern language features (garbage collection, no 
header files, no preprocessor, etc) and it's also a system level language. 
For example, on Windows there are "drivers" which run in user mode rather 
than kernel mode. You could use D to write something like this and it would 
be nice. But I wouldn't (couldn't?) use C# for such a thing. It wouldn't be 
fast enough.



An advantage of D is that it compiles directly to native code and is fast. 
If you were to build a version of D for .NET, then I think it would be 
losing that advantage. The speed would probably be more C# and so there 
wouldn't be as much benefit of D over C#.



But perhaps just creating such a thing might get D more notoriety. It might 
be worth it just for that. And perhaps having a language that is portable 
between .NET and native compilations would be useful, since C# doesn't do 
that.



Jim