On Monday, 24 September 2012 at 05:45:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:48:49AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:46 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The sad part is that so many of the commenters have no idea
> that
> adjacent C literals are concatenated at compile-time. It's a
> very
> nice way to put long strings in code and have it nicely
> indented,
> something that is sorely lacking in most languages. But
> regardless,
> why are they posting if they clearly don't know C that well?!
>
Heh, actually I didn't even know about it until I learned it
from D
and then learned that D got it from C (does D still do it, or
is that
one of those "to be deprecated" things?)
Heh. I suppose in any language complex enough to be interesting
there
are always some things that you don't know about until a long
time
later. :) So maybe I was a bit harsh on the commenters. But
still, they
should've checked before they posted (but then I'm guilty of
that one
too).
But then dealing with strings is something I generally tried
to avoid
in C anyway ;)
Yeah... D is just so much more comfortable to write when
dealing with
strings. With std.regex in Phobos now, writing
string-processing code in
D is almost as comfortable as Perl, and probably performs
better too.
Having learned Turbo Pascal before I delved into C, the language
always felt pre-historic to me. Strings were a joke compared with
what Turbo Pascal offered, lack of modules and so forth.
After high-school, I only touched C in the university assignments
that made use of it, or in legacy code at my first job.
I would rather use C++ instead, which gave me back a bit of what
I've lost in the Turbo Pascal -> C transition, plus much more.
[...]
Yea, contract has it's upsides, although naturally it has it's
own
perils too. Making a living at it is *damn* hard (either that
or I'm
just REALLY bad at self-employment...but it's probably both),
and
frankly I'm still trying to figure out how to do it.
[...]
True. I suppose you just have to do what's most popular out
there right
now. I know someone who does Java stuff, and he's never short on
contracts. In fact, he gets to choose his vacations 'cos he has
enough
options in terms of which contracts he chooses to bid on.
T
That is why I stopped being religious about technology.
If the customer pays for doing a something in language X,
operating system Y, that is all that counts for me at the end of
the day.
Otherwise you are forced to travel a lot, if you only do certain
types of technologies.
--
Paulo
