On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:02:51 -0500 >>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Nowakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jeff, Jeff> Hypocrisy is a pet peeve of mine. How about discussing the gory Jeff> problems with const, and discussing the true state of the Jeff> language at the next D talk? If you're going to bash Go Jeff> presentations for cherry-picking, you should hold yourself to the Jeff> same standards. Please don't take it personal...I'm just taking 'advantage' of your post to suggest to all the posters one thing: Please be a little bit more positive towards Walter and Andrei. They are not Supermans but sincerely trying to give some good to us and it's practically free. Long ago, I bought and used Walter's Zortech C++ compiler which was superb. Then I left programming waters and returned back some years ago. I didn't want to go to C(++) which evolved into huge beast and skipped all the scripting languages trying my fortune with Haskell. However, after some time I've decided that I want something more pragmatic...read a bit about D, saw Andrei's Google presentation (I liked his enthusiasm), bought the TDPL book (and put it in hardcover to last longer) and now I'm slowly learning the language hoping to use it in a real-world along with QtD. Yes, I'm not blind and can see that some mistakes were probably done within D community...D is certainly not perfect language (this title is already reserved for Sanskrit :-) ), but if you can tell me about better language to be used for practical daily programming having feature set or covering different programming paradigms - here I am. ;) I did my homework and nothing is similar to D, so please make this newsgroup more pleasant place by uttering some nice words about Walter & Bright. I sincerely believe they're humans who like to get some encouragement as well instead of constant downpour of (very often) unjustified criticism. If anyone can do better, pls. step in and show the example...otherwise, let's us show some gratitude towards people trying to make programming more fun. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: CDBF17CA ----------------------------------------------------------------
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