On Friday, 18 November 2016 at 19:43:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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. :-)
I used to mean 'sentiments' as "сентиметальность", but "опыт -
сын ошибок трудных" (Пушкин) is what realy in behind :)
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?
Sure. Let we have a uint_array of values. And we need to get a
string of these values in hex separated with ','. In Python it
looks like
<code python>
', '.join(map(hex, uint_array))
</code python>
After 2 hours of brain breaking (as D newbie) I have come to:
<code D>
uint_array.map!(v=>"%x".format(v)).join(", ")
</code D>
Why 2 hours? Because I have started with 'joiner' function and
aftewords found out the 'join'.
To my mind there is more simple form for this task in D (about
formatting).
What is your using of D?
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
Same here.
But my coworkers are not addicted to programming at all :)
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.
I don't hope about "D some day", I'm sure about that (5 to 30
years).
The idea is "I D", not "I C++" :)
