On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 07:26:56PM +0000, Igor Shirkalin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 18 November 2016 at 18:14:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Welcome, Igor! > Hello, Teoh! > > > > Your sentiments reflect mine years ago when I first discovered D. I > > came from a C/C++/Perl background. It was also Andrei's book that > > got me started; in those early days documentation was scant and I > > didn't know how to write idiomatic D code. But after I found TDPL, > > the rest was history. :-) > I was a little bit afraid of my missunderstanding in terms of > sentiments. You've got me right (I don't quite feel the meaning of > that in these non-cyrillic letters:). But what I understand is the > path you have walked and what I have in my mind.
Yes, I meant 'sentiments' as in опыта, not as in сентметальность. :-) > Simple example about D: I spent two hours to write a line (borrowed > from Python), related with lazy calculations, but finally I got it > with deep great thinking, and it was like understanding of Moon > alienation from Earth. Great! Would you like to share the code snippet? [...] > What is your using of D? > For me it is tool to develope other tools. [...] Sadly, I have not been able to use D in a professional capacity. My coworkers are very much invested into C/C++ and have a very high level of skepticism to anything else, in addition to resistance to adding new toolchains (much less languages) to the current projects. So my use of D has mainly been in personal projects. I do contribute to Phobos (the standard library) every now and then, though. It's my way of "contributing to the cause" in the hopes that one day D may be more widespread and accepted by the general programming community. T -- By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- D. Knuth
