20-Feb-2013 23:00, H. S. Teoh пишет:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:48:25PM +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
[...]
In brief I was half-sleeping in a train when a young guy
takes a seat next to me. He pulls out a laptop and powers it up.
Idly wondering what I'll see this time around (HTML/JS? Python/Ruby?
MS Word, PowerPoint?) to my surprise I notice it boots Arch linux.
Cute... and then the guy starts X11 from the console... (dubious)
with Xfce (+1 from me, though I'm with Cinnamon now).
The next thing he does: fire up a terminal and Geany.
Command line goes like:
cd Code/D
cd <some-project>
git pull
And then he's off furiously hacking on some GTK-based project written
in D. (I omit the details, though the repo is public) Actually it's
some kind of client-server file transfer utility, alpha quality it
seems. I even checked the repo, seems like he's involved in some tiny
software startup.
Bottom line for me this kind of thing beats TIOBE index any day of the
week :)
[...]
Wait, wait, so you're saying, this random guy sitting next to you is, of
all things, coding in D, and you didn't even have a conversation with
him?!
It felt like a dream I was afraid to break this nice illusion, only
half-joking :)
Seriously, it feels like I've lost an opportunity to get acquainted with
the local D resistance cell. But what's the hell, my email is there in
the open and the guy seems to peruse the NG (d coder?).
--
Dmitry Olshansky
