Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :)

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:56:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Held" <dave.held@arrayservicesgrp.com> writes:
> > Yeah, that's good news too, though it definitely helps that
> > Postgres is written in C.  Most of the conformance improvements
> > are in the C++ front-end and the C++ Standard Library.  Still
> > no export though.  I personally believe that projects should 
> > move to C++ when possible, but I understand that there is still 
> > a perception that C is fundamentally faster.
> 
> I dunno about "fundamentally faster", but "fundamentally more stable"
> I'd agree with.  C++ has never recovered from being a moving target
> for so long.  For a project with any serious ambitions of portability,
> it's a pretty risky choice.

Why don't we rewrite Postgres in D?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

:-D

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