Quite. It's been going on from the outset. Basically they got it wrong and they've been hacking at it ever since in a vain attempt to get it right. The shoul

Quite. It's been going on from the outset. Basically they got it wrong and they've been hacking at it ever since in a vain attempt to get it right. The should have killed the C linking compatibility from the outset (header files are devil spawn), they should have had a native string type as well. D represents a much better attempt at what C++ ought to have been.