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Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac

Posted by Soulskill on from the sieze-the-d dept.

jonniee writes "D is a programming language created by Walter Bright of C++ fame. D's focus is on combining the power and high performance of C/C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. And now he's ported it to the Macintosh. Quoting: '[Building a runtime library] exposed a lot of conditional compilation issues that had no case for OS X. I found that Linux has a bunch of API functions that are missing in OS X, like getline and getdelim, so some of the library functionality had to revert to more generic code for OS X. I had to be careful, because although many system macros had the same functionality and spelling, they had different expansions. Getting these wrong would cause some mysterious behavior, indeed.'"

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  1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As little as possible. From the article:

    I then figured out how to remotely connect to the Mac over the LAN, and (the Mac people will hate me for this) put the Mac in the basement and operate it remotely with a text window.

  2. Re:What? by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    So basically, Mac IS Linux on the desktop?

    I think I've just given Linux fans nightmares for months.

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  3. Re:Shouldn't it be called P? by psergiu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. We have B, we have C and the one language to rule them all has source files ending in .PL

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  4. ZZ99++ by itsdapead · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...or there's always Greek, Hebrew, Klingon* and, hey, Chinese (that should keep us going for a while)!

    Why do you think they invented Unicode?

    (*Fatal Error at line 16349: statement has no honour)

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  5. Re:Shouldn't it be called P? by SecondaryOak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prolog?

  6. Re:Shouldn't it be called P? by berend+botje · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that's the truth!