On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:04:10PM +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote: > On 14 September 2013 19:47, Nick Sabalausky > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:14:09 +0200 > > Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 14/09/13 00:51, Justin Whear wrote: > >> > Just ran across this: http://www.zimbu.org/ > >> > A language by Bram Moolenaar (original author and maintainer of > >> > vim). The "Why Zimbu?" section on the right side of the homepage > >> > has comparisons to other languages. D is the last comparison, > >> > suggesting that it meets all the other qualifications but fails > >> > on "It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so > >> > D is out." > >> > >> Theoretically, shouldn't GDC be able to support just about any > >> architecture for which GCC has a backend? The runtime and Phobos > >> need porting, but the core language itself should be usable, no? > > > > And doesn't LLVM have a way to compile D *to* C? > > > > If it did, there would be quite a few bits missing as much of D can > not be easily represented in C. [...]
Really? Example? I thought *anything* can be reduced to C, given enough implementational abstractions. T -- What do you mean the Internet isn't filled with subliminal messages? What about all those buttons marked "submit"??
