[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snip*
> ..... It bothers me that the trend is away from here, towards
extending the C language, where other languages may be better suited to the newer, larger, more complex applications. In other words, C covers a wide enough scope, from near as damn the bare-bone machine to sizeable applications. Once you exceed a certain level, it makes more sense to look elsewhere. I wonder if the GCC developers have evne considered redeveloping GCC in a language other than C? ++L PS: Doug Gwyn may well claim that the ANSI committee is trying to standardise best common practices, but I have a feeling that the committee is unqualified to do this because they represent the wrong interests, as I said above, not the users, but the feature designers.
I personally think 'D' is reachng a level of maturity to take on much of that 'C' strength in a saner way, and with near-zero 'speed' penalty - the bane of most other alternatives.
A compromise, of course - but a very sensible one, given needs that will not go away.
OTOH, 'D' has not had several decades of 'committees' bending the original goals... Not yet anyway..
Bill
