== Quote from Leandro Lucarella ([email protected])'s article > And BTW, GCC implements 7 languages (at least 7 languages are present as > bugzilla components: ada, c, c++, fortran, java, objc and objc++), so > doing a rough estimative, 5442/7 ~= 800, less than DMD, which implements > only D. > Seriously Walter, you *can't* possibly compare DMD with GCC, it's almost > funny when you do it =P
The comparison is ridiculous anyway. D is a rapidly evolving language that doesn't even have a stable spec yet. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." -- Edward V Berard Seriously, all of the languages GCC implements have been around since at least the Paleozoic Era, some since the Big Bang. This means that they have a stable spec and that there's been plenty of time for bug fixing. A lot of bugs in Bugzilla are D2-only, though I can't quantify this. D1 had been relatively well-debugged. If you want the latest and greatest features, you have to accept the possibility of more bugs. This is, always has been, and always will be a fact of life in all software and it's ridiculous to think that D should somehow be an exception.
