"dsimcha" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > == Quote from AJ ([email protected])'s article >> Is there a utility to convert C++ code to D code? > > No. In theory it would be possible to write one, but it wouldn't be > particularly > useful, as its output would likely not be readable D code. Look at some > of the C > code output by language x to C compilers. It's not readable C. It's > filled with > gotos and no high-level constructs, etc. This analogy is relevant b/c D > has a > C-like subset and the higher level parts are the harder parts to target > programmatically. Translating into *readable* code would probably require > some > program that passes the Turing test.
OK. That shows that D is a drastic departure from C++. Why changes to code punctuation (i.e., semicolons) would matter in regards to "luring C++ programmers" is not apparent.
