On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 13:45 +, Alexandre via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>
[…]
> Could you elaborate more about C being a burden? I have read so
> many people saying C gives a great foundation and should be
> everyone's first language. Now I am confused.
C is a programming language created
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 14:05:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:28:45 UTC, berni wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
In my
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 13:57:44 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 20:02:08 UTC, Aurélien Plazzotta
wrote:
[...]
But don't fool yourself, D is not for beginners. Ali Çehreli
is a very skilled programmer, ergo, he can't reason like a
new/starting programmer anymore,
On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 22:36:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:49 +, bachmeier via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […]
There's nothing wrong with Haskell if you want to take a deep
dive into pure functional programming. I personally find
Haskell to be more of a
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 15:51:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 13:45 +, Alexandre via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…]
Could you elaborate more about C being a burden? I have read
so many people saying C gives a great foundation and should be
everyone's first
On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 21:26:10 UTC, Matt wrote:
Anyone have any other thoughts?
I tried to simplify your example a little bit:
import std.stdio;
import std.range;
import std.algorithm;
auto myFilter(R1, R2)(R1 a, R2 b)
{
return a.filter!(c => c==b.front);
}
struct A
{
int[]
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 10:25 -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
>
[…]
> My feeling is that functional languages are likely to be a very poor place
> for most folks to start learning, much as I think that they're great for
> someone to learn and work with at some point. I have
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:28:45 UTC, berni wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago
...
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 13:45:17 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:30:44 UTC, berni wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
[...]
In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years
ago and it's not worth while to learn it if you
On Friday, August 2, 2019 10:13:04 AM MDT bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 22:36:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:49 +, bachmeier via
> > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […]
> >
> >> There's nothing wrong with Haskell if you want to
On Friday, August 2, 2019 11:05:13 AM MDT Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 10:25 -0600, Jonathan M Davis via
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>
> […]
>
> > My feeling is that functional languages are likely to be a very poor
> > place for most folks to start
On Friday, August 2, 2019 5:13:10 PM MDT realhet via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to make some resource statistict for my OpenGL Buffer
> objects:
>
>
> //here are the things that hold the statistics.
> private __gshared{ size_t[int] textureSizeMap, bufferSizeMap; }
>
> struct
When I navigate to https://forum.dlang.org/ I have a message that
says "1 new reply" to "your posts." Normally, I click on that "1
new reply" and find the post that's new, go to it, and the
message disappears. However, it doesn't seem to go away anymore.
I tried looking at many different old
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
In my view, the most important thing is the decision you've
already made - to pick a programming language and learn it in a
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 21:44:28 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
Hello,
I don't quite understand why isEven is called twice in the 2nd
example?
auto isEven(int n) {
n.writeln;
return (n % 2) == 0;
}
void main() {
auto z = [1,2,3];
// outputs 1 2 3
Hello,
I don't quite understand why isEven is called twice in the 2nd
example?
auto isEven(int n) {
n.writeln;
return (n % 2) == 0;
}
void main() {
auto z = [1,2,3];
// outputs 1 2 3
z.map!(a => tuple!("number")(a))
.filter!(a =>
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 21:44:28 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
// outputs 1 2 2 3
z.map!(a => tuple!("number","iseven")(a, a.isEven))
.filter!(a => a.iseven)
.array;
I *think* what's happening here is first it calls map() first
going into the filter... then
Hi,
I tried to make some resource statistict for my OpenGL Buffer
objects:
//here are the things that hold the statistics.
private __gshared{ size_t[int] textureSizeMap, bufferSizeMap; }
struct GLCounters{
int programs, shaders, textures, buffers;
size_t textureSize, bufferSize;
}
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 21:10:08 UTC, Andrej wrote:
The D spec mentions something called mixin types:
This is brand new to the spec and hasn't yet been released in a
compiler.
You can get a nightly build here
https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html to maybe try, but I
don't think it
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 21:44:28 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
Hello,
I don't quite understand why isEven is called twice in the 2nd
example?
auto isEven(int n) {
n.writeln;
return (n % 2) == 0;
}
void main() {
auto z = [1,2,3];
// outputs 1 2 3
The D spec mentions something called mixin types:
https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html#MixinType
https://dlang.org/spec/type.html#mixin_types
If I'm understanding the grammar right, it means you can use a
string mixin anywhere a Type would normally go, for example:
int func(mixin("int") x)
{
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 22:35:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 21:44:28 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
// outputs 1 2 2 3
z.map!(a => tuple!("number","iseven")(a, a.isEven))
.filter!(a => a.iseven)
.array;
I *think* what's happening
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:30:44 UTC, berni wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
[...]
In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago
and it's not worth while to learn it if you are not interested
in the history of programming or you have
On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 20:02:08 UTC, Aurélien Plazzotta
wrote:
[...]
But don't fool yourself, D is not for beginners. Ali Çehreli is
a very skilled programmer, ergo, he can't reason like a
new/starting programmer anymore, regardless of his patience and
kindness.
I am sorry, but this
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 22:30:52 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
My goals:
1) Improve as a programmer
2) Have fun doing programs
That's it basically. I am planning to study all "free" time I
have. I am doing basically this since last year.
Are you only considering D and C or just mentioning
Continuing on with Cairo, this is a look at the variations and
permutations of drawing rectangles and you'll find it here:
https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/02/0058-cairo-ii-rectangles.html
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
D and C++ (and probably other languages) inherit features of C
such as operator precendence, integer promotion, and a few
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like an honest opinion.
I have a beginner level (able to do very small programs) in a
few languages such as python, go, C, guile(scheme) and common
lisp. I want to pick a language and go deep with it and focus
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago
and it's not worth while to learn it if you are not
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 2:30 PM berni via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> ...
> I would even go further and state, that learning C first will
> become a burden instead of a help.
>
Yes, I agree with this. It is same as with C++. Many people starts
with C and then learn C++. Which is really not a
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote:
Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer
change to D?
Should I start with D right now?
In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago
and it's not worth while to learn it if you are not
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