Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Leverage - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/476400279160885248 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/863665863647096 Andrei I cannot accept 10. .iota; // The space here is unacceptable. Please have the programmer change 10. to 10.0 so that we have 10.0.iota; // Cleaner, obvious, and doesn't look like a typo. Thank you.
Re: Lang.NEXT panel
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:13:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Of possible interest. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/ Andrei IMHO, the coolest thing was when Rob Pike told about the tool they made for automatically upgrading user source code to their next language version. That should be quite easy to implement now in D, and once done, would give much needed room for breaking changes we feel should be done. Pike seemed to be extremely satisfied they did it.