"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 09/14/2010 05:41 AM, retard wrote: >> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:44:35 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: >>> It's also nice to eat our own dogfood, and do something useful with >>> std.zip. >> >> And D is a pragmatic language? Listen man, you the Superman of the D >> world and instead of fighting crimes, you're always knitting socks. > > Well ideally we'd eat our dogfood by bootstrapping dmd. I think that'll > happen at some point in the future due to the nice ddmd ongoing effort. > Walter is itching to use D's power in day-to-day work. > > There is a fuzzy limit regarding what should be a script vs. a program. > For example, rdmd did start as a script. Probably it still could be, but > it's involved and specialized enough to justify writing it in D. My guess > is that the script would have more lines and would be much more difficult > to maintain than the D program. >
It also wouldn't work for us Windows users without having to deal with a PITA like MSYS or Cygwin. (I'm not saying we do or don't need a D-based zip tool. I'm just saying I'm glad rdmd isn't a shell script.)
