Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 22, 2009 @02:52AM 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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Re:semi by WillKemp · 2009-02-22 04:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I see someone's used the '-1 Disagree' moderation option again.
Slashdot management: why can't we have a "Disagree" option in the mod select box - that knocks off one mod point from the moderator, but does nothing to the post???