• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Mar 28 2009

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

 Walter Bright wrote:
 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
 Doesn't matter what you're making, OS or not, the choice of language 
 *certainly* carries repercussions throughout a project. Sure Linux is 
 doing fine with C. So what? It could probably be doing a lot better 
 with D.


 It's like if you gave the Spartan Leonidas a Henry repeating rifle - he 
 still would have lost at Thermopylae. But there is little doubt that one 
 Henry repeating rifle is worth a hundred spear-chucking wicker-armored 
 immortals.


 Sometimes I run these crazy calculations: how much modern firepower 
 would be just enough to turn the odds in a classic battle? At 
 Thermopilae, I think two Vickers with enough ammo would have been just 
 about enough. Also at the Lord of the Rings 2 night castle defense, one 
 machine gun would have sufficed (better protection and fewer assailants).
 
 
 Andrei


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