[Sussex] RE: The 'D' programming language

[Geoff Teale]

As it's my birthday and nobody seem to be hassling me as I have a desk full
of doughnuts next to me and a few pints inside me, I shall continue...

Steve wrote:
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<snip>
>   [That last line was adapted from a line in the second radio 
>    series of the Hitch Hikers' Guild to the Galaxy - By D Adams]

This must be some strange new use of the word "Safe" I wasn't previously
aware of...

> 3\ Sometimes the pressures of the project also causes the 
> developers to
> go with what they know.  When managers do this is can get in the way
> of building a better system.  

Yes.  It's certaily easier to spec accurately for a lnaguage you already
know!

<snip>
> Did I misread you?  If I did I'm sorry.

As likely as not it was my explanation that was lacking, not your
understanding.

> But to me both your posting suggested to me that if 
> developing code to run
> on an embedded system - with no constraints (hence embedded) you would
> rather
> write the firmware in assembler.  I, on the other hand, would 
> rather use
> Java, C++ or C (in that order).  To me, whether at work or for fun at
> home,  assembly is a dead technology.
<snip>

I agree totally that assembly is _not_ the best way of doing the job, it
would merely be the most intelectually challenging approach.  What I was
trying to point out was that I didn't really have time to dedicate to my
favoured tools (D, Ruby, LISP) because I have to live in the "real world".

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