On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 08:19:06AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:32:42 +0400 > Gor Gyolchanyan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Jonathan M Davis > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > The more I deal with this language, the more I love it, and the > > > more frustrating it is to deal with other languages (much as I > > > like many of them as well). What we have isn't perfect, but > > > overall, it's so clean and powerful that it's an absolute blast to > > > work with. It's so amazingly easy to do so many things in it that > > > are often frustratingly difficult in other languages. Ranges in > > > particular make a huge difference in writing nicely idiomatic and > > > straightforward code, but the language design as a whole is great > > > (much as it still has a few warts - like all languages do). > > > > > > So, I just felt like saying thanks to everyone who's put work into > > > D and continues to do so. Keep up the good work! > > > > > ///ditto
///ditto :) After programming in D, I just find C/C++ (which I have to use at work) really painful. I keep finding myself wishing that some piece of code was written in D, and thinking that if that buggy piece of code were only written in D, things would be a lot different. :) [...] > bash/sh: How else were you gonna string together CLI commands, usable > on virtually any Unix system? One word: Perl. ;-) (But I admit I am greatly biased.) [...] > JavaScript: What other language you gonna use for client-side web? [...] Coming from you, I find that rather funny, and a little disturbing. ;-) T -- He who laughs last thinks slowest.
