Hi all,
Don't know if this[1] has been posted before, I've just seen it
and seemed interesting.
Hope you also like it.
Antonio
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_tmccinds=youtu.be
On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 06:14:02 UTC, Rel wrote:
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if" construct,
nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could find, anyway.
So what's a big deal in having 'static if' construct? Most of
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if" construct,
nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could find, anyway.
So what's a big deal in having 'static if' construct? Most of the
new programming languages that compiles to native
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 14:18:07 UTC, Rel wrote:
In case you guys like to take a quick look at new emerging,
but somewhat unknown systems programming languages:
* https://www.red-lang.org/ (own handwritten backend)
*
i think the explanation in
https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#statements-and-expressions-when-statement
is pretty clear. In any case you can see for yourself:
nim c -r main.nim
```nim
proc fun(a:int):auto=a*a
static: # makes sure block evaluated at CT
when fun(1)==1: echo "ok1"
when
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 23:09:34 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
nim supports static if (`when`) + CTFE. A simple google search
or searching
would've revealed that.
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mark via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 20:57:16
nim supports static if (`when`) + CTFE. A simple google search or searching
would've revealed that.
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mark via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 20:57:16 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> > On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC,
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 20:57:16 UTC, Dennis wrote:
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if" construct,
nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could find, anyway.
What qualifies under "static if"? Because Rust, Swift and
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if" construct,
nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could find, anyway.
What qualifies under "static if"? Because Rust, Swift and Nim do
have conditional compilation.
On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 14:18:07 UTC, Rel wrote:
In case you guys like to take a quick look at new emerging,
but somewhat unknown systems programming languages:
* https://www.red-lang.org/ (own handwritten backend)
* https://crystal-lang.org/ (llvm-based backend)
* https://ziglang.org/
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 21:26:35 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:52:24 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
The only things I've read about nim have been on the D forums
- it seems the wikipedia article is even being considered for
deletion due to not being noteworthy. So I think you
In case you guys like to take a quick look at new emerging,
but somewhat unknown systems programming languages:
* https://www.red-lang.org/ (own handwritten backend)
* https://crystal-lang.org/ (llvm-based backend)
* https://ziglang.org/ (llvm-based backend)
* http://nitlanguage.org/ (c-based
As for me, I find the Nim programming language interesting.
However I dislike syntax a bit, in some cases Python+Pascal
syntax style of Nim looks very ugly in my opinion. Also I
strongly against relying on C compiler for code generation,
knowing how slow it can be. Obviously it was easy for
On Friday, 20 April 2018 at 11:07:30 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Has anyone got Pony on their list of interesting languages?
I had spent some time looking over the reference capabilities
[1], but I'm not sure I have the time to actually program in the
language. The isolated type seemed like
On Friday, 20 April 2018 at 11:07:30 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 16:50 +, Per Nordlöw via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:52:24 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> P.S., the example on the language's frontpage is cool!
>
> http://nim-lang.org/
>
> Why should I
On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 16:50 +, Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:52:24 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> > P.S., the example on the language's frontpage is cool!
> >
> > http://nim-lang.org/
> >
> > Why should I be excited?
> > Nim is the only language that
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:52:24 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
P.S., the example on the language's frontpage is cool!
http://nim-lang.org/
Why should I be excited?
Nim is the only language that leverages automated proof
technology to perform a disjoint check for your parallel code.
Working on
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:19:44 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
I've created a git repo
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ with the goal: up to
date and objective comparison of features between D and nim,
and 1:1 map of features, tools, idioms and libraries to help D
users learn nim
@helxi I invite you to contribute PR's to
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ where I discuss feature
parity and how to translate concepts from D to nim wherever it makes
sense
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 4:12 PM, helxi via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On F
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:42:20 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
Nim looks very promising.
Is there any comprehensive comparison against D somewhere (if
possible
recent) ?
Nim is way more expressive than D afaik. Consider the following
imaginary function:
proc fn[A : int | float; N; B :
On 2018-03-30 08:53, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
With the frame of mind prevalent in our Industry I really want to have
compiler includibg codegen as a bunch of library components.
Then there is no problem innovating while people argue over things
“allowed” for a compiler, or a linker, or a
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D
and nim (to help deciding what language to use
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 23:25:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/28/2018 1:27 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
There's usually nothing that prevents the build tool to write
files at build time. Dub can do this.
It's expected with a build tool. Not a compiler.
With the frame of mind prevalent
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 03:57:05 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 23:23:10 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
This is deterministic destruction and not RAII. Resource is
never *acquired* here. Lack of default constructors for struct
in D makes it impossible to
On 29/03/18 14:03, Maksim Fomin wrote:
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 09:45:04 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Not so long as destructors don't reliably run.
$ rdmd test.d
A(1) constructed
A(2) constructed
A(1) destructed
Caught: Constructor failed
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14246
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 09:45:04 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Not so long as destructors don't reliably run.
$ rdmd test.d
A(1) constructed
A(2) constructed
A(1) destructed
Caught: Constructor failed
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14246
Good catch. This is a variant of bug
On 28/03/18 02:23, Timothee Cour wrote:
that comment was regarding -betterC
RAII (with structs) has been available in D for a while, eg:
```d
struct A{
~this(){...}
}
void fun(){
A a; // when a goes out of scope, will call dtor deterministically
}
```
Not so long as destructors don't
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 23:25:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It's expected with a build tool. Not a compiler.
It depends. The compilers are doing more and more work these
days. Initially, DMD could not build libraries, now it can. DMD
does not output assembly files and runs an
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 23:29:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Safety - not so much.
I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing
ActiveX controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code
automatically downloaded from the
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 23:23:10 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
that comment was regarding -betterC
RAII (with structs) has been available in D for a while, eg:
```d
struct A{
~this(){...}
}
void fun(){
A a; // when a goes out of scope, will call dtor
deterministically
}
```
On Tue,
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:29:28PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> > Safety - not so much.
>
> I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing ActiveX
> controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code
On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Safety - not so much.
I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing ActiveX controls
hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code automatically downloaded from the
internet that were embedded in your spreadsheet, word document, etc.
On 3/28/2018 1:27 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
There's usually nothing that prevents the build tool to write files at build
time. Dub can do this.
It's expected with a build tool. Not a compiler.
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 20:50:51 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:49:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/27/2018 5:11 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
- ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily
positive. THough I can't tell why from the top of my mind.
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:49:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/27/2018 5:11 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
- ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily
positive. THough I can't tell why from the top of my mind.
The act of compiling a buggy program not influence the global
state
On 2018-03-27 23:49, Walter Bright wrote:
The act of compiling a buggy program not influence the global state of
the computer. It should not be necessary to vet code downloaded from the
internet before even compiling it to ensure it doesn't mess up the system.
There's usually nothing that
Did they figure out how to pass data between threads?
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 04:46:21 UTC, meppl wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
...
Sometimes I want to use a debugger like gdc. If it works, it
can be really useful. I skipped trying out Nim, because
debugging was not really supported. I wonder, if
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 12:02:37 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 06:03:07 UTC, Timothee Cour
wrote:
[snip]
I would like to refocus this thread on feature set and how it
compares to D, not on flame wars about brackets or language
marketing issues.
In the comparison
wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to refocus this thread on feature set and how it compares to
>>> D, not on flame wars about brackets or language marketing issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've created a git repo https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ with
s to D, not on flame wars about brackets or language
marketing issues.
I've created a git repo
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ with the goal: up to
date and objective comparison of features between D and nim,
and 1:1 map of features, tools, idioms and libraries to help D
users lea
On 3/27/2018 5:11 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
- ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily positive. THough I can't
tell why from the top of my mind.
The act of compiling a buggy program not influence the global state of the
computer. It should not be necessary to vet code
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 14:51:30 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D
and nim (to help deciding what language to use
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 12:11:58 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
- ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily
positive. THough I can't tell why from the top of my mind.
Only thing I can think of is that 3rd party modules can end up
writing to your file-system during compilation
On 28/03/2018 1:02 AM, jmh530 wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 06:03:07 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
[snip]
I would like to refocus this thread on feature set and how it compares
to D, not on flame wars about brackets or language marketing issues.
In the comparison you made
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D
and nim (to help deciding what language to use
On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 06:03:07 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
[snip]
I would like to refocus this thread on feature set and how it
compares to D, not on flame wars about brackets or language
marketing issues.
In the comparison you made
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
you say
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D
and nim (to help deciding what language to use
D and nim are both very promising.
I created this git repo to compare them:
https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D
and nim (to help deciding what language to use), and 1:1 map of
features and libraries to help D users learn
issues.
I've created a git repo https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
with the goal: up to date and objective comparison of features
between D and nim, and 1:1 map of features, tools, idioms and
libraries to help D users learn nim and vice versa.
On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:54:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
So the implication that use of the nonstandard form would lead
to confusion is pure pedantry.
Yes, indeed.
Much of the difficulty with discussions of language in the modern
world comes from not making a distinction between its denotative
On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 16:34:59 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:54:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
So the implication that use of the nonstandard form would lead
to confusion is pure pedantry.
Yes, indeed.
Much of the difficulty with discussions of language in the
modern
On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 09:38:02 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
On 12/06/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote:
man is still used as a gender neutral pronoun in German,
however, for
some reason it's frowned upon these days, just like one in
English.
It's considered arrogant and old fashioned, but it's effin
On 12/06/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote:
man is still used as a gender neutral pronoun in German, however, for
some reason it's frowned upon these days, just like one in English.
It's considered arrogant and old fashioned, but it's effin useful and
solves a lot of problems.
Mind you, decisions made
On 12/06/2015 10:37 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Yea, I'm fine with ain't being considered an actual word. Years ago, I
used to hear a lot of 'Ain't' isn't a real word, but meh, it's used as
a word, even the people who don't like it still know full-well exactly
what it means, so...I ain't got a
On 6/13/2015 10:26 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Actually I think it matters more if the person you are talking to knows
the gender of the person you are talking about, in the shop sentence the
gender of the friend is unknown to the person you are talking to so
they still works.
So then, use the
On 12/06/2015 2:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/10/2015 12:56 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend) is gearing up to define
they as both singular and plural, thus at a stroke
On 11/06/2015 2:30 AM, weaselcat wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage, he
is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 02:12:39 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend)
Glad to hear it. Please tell your countrymen to prefer
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:13:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
-ise. If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were
taught -ize, they would find -ise strange. It's ridiculous
how people get attached to stuff like this.
I have to admit I use -ize over -ise because I think it
visually looks
On 2015-06-12 01:52, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm in the compiler business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIyClDuBgo
You're in the Empire business as well ;) Or was.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:35:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:13:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
-ise. If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were
taught -ize, they would find -ise strange. It's ridiculous
how people get attached to stuff like this.
I have
On 06/11/2015 06:35 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:14:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
https://youtu.be/VjNVPO8ff84 :3
https://youtu.be/bJDY5zTiWUk maybe this too(?)
Never heard those before, those are really
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 18:32:22 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:19:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just kept asking for corks...
For me that sounds 100% fine...
Ah, ok. I found this link interesting:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Banned in the US: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love
Song and SABRINA - Boys (Video Original) - HD.
Banned? Oh well, Lydon of Sex Pistols is an anarchist and Sabrina
shows of her tits with a wardrobe malfunction. I guess
Dave whate...@whatever.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:06:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 18:17:01 UTC, Dave wrote:
Disagree. Traditionally also handled by throwing exceptions. C#
throws a Format exception if a parse fails.
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:52:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
was not related to english singular they… but it could also
come from Sie through the trade German influence in Bergen
around 1300…
Or more likely Danish… I think they have same polite singular
form De. It makes sense that
Originally (.Net 1) there was only 'Parse', 'TryParse' came in
.Net 2, I
guess they had to admit that exceptions are not always
practical.
I think TryParse (and anything marked prefixed with Try) is meant
for quick stuff. It doesn't return any error. Just a boolean
indicating that it failed.
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Here is a nice documentary about the 80s :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Wow, just watched the first minute, that's freaking sweet!
Definitely gonna watch the rest of that later.
The historical accuracy is indeed
On 06/12/2015 03:58 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Banned in the US: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song and
SABRINA - Boys (Video Original) - HD.
Banned? Oh well,
On 06/12/2015 07:48 AM, Chris wrote:
The same goes for ain't. There's no reason why ain't should be bad
English. I ain't got no money is perfectly fine, although it might
make the odd Oxbridge fellow cringe and spill his tea. But what the
Dickens, old chap!
Yea, I'm fine with ain't being
On 6/13/2015 3:32 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they just
kept asking for corks...
For me that sounds 100% fine...
Not to me. Gender-neutrality is for the cases when the gender is unknown
or the subject is generic, e.g. A person. I would
On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 01:09:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On 6/13/2015 3:32 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Not to me. Gender-neutrality is for the cases when the gender
is unknown or the subject is generic, e.g. A person. I would
assume that you are likely to know the gender of a friend, in
which
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:05:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
Do you speak Bokmål or Nynorsk?
Bokmål, but neither Bokmål or Nynorsk are naturally spoken
languages, they are written languages.
Nobody actually speaks Nynorsk (only in poetry, drama and movies
where it is read in a rather literal
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:05:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
Do you speak Bokmål or Nynorsk?
Bokmål, but neither Bokmål or Nynorsk are naturally spoken
languages, they are written languages.
Nobody actually speaks Nynorsk (only
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 09:26:29 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
On 11/06/2015 2:30 AM, weaselcat wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD
usage,
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:02:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Hey, you see that person over there? What are they doing? Is
that their big red stuffed dinosaur?
A person came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just keept asking for corks, we sell paint...
I am going to wear this big
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:35:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
They as singular feels weird tho, but maybe it is related to
the archaic thou and thee? We had the same in norwegian ~60
years ago. De (they) was used as singular towards strangers
and du (you) was used with people you were
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:19:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:02:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Hey, you see that person over there? What are they doing? Is
that their big red stuffed dinosaur?
A person came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
People here often request features you can only ask for after
years of programming experience. This shows that there is a
lot of experience in the D community. Without experience D
wouldn't be where it is, having only
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 03:04:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
The biggest difference between the D community in general and
other communities is actually quite simple.
Experience.
Indeed! The world has never seen a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on experience in
comparison to Go is... not right... given the experienced
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:11:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
actually making a good GC for D is difficult because the only
type of barrier you can use it hardware protection faults. The
performance dropoff isn't _that_ bad from what I've read in
various papers.
I should have an article up in a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:52:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
heavily disagree honestly.
Ken Thompson - B?
Rob Pike - Limbo? Joking?
Not your kind of experience? But still experience...
So there is a limit to how far experience can take you.
Anyway, language designers that do multiple
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:52:06 UTC, Chris wrote:
vaguely familiar but I cannot put my finger on it. Usually I
don't follow an idea that somehow sounds familiar.
Well, in this case it might sound familiar to me because it is
based manipulated sample of another tune I made... But I
I really wish people would stop complaining about other
languages having the same features as D without giving credit.
It is impossible to figure out exactly where ideas from
features come from, but most features predate even C++ if being
first is the main point.
Hear, hear, is it so
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
As Tofu Ninja said, a dictionary only (partly) reflects the
current usage of a language. Look up the word sophisticated and
you'll find out that it had a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:13:53 UTC, Dave wrote:
Another backwards annotation is nothrow. I don't really care if
something doesn't throw, I care when it throws, because then I
have to do
something (or my program may crash unexpectedly).
I recently debugged such no crash bug: the code
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas Google is
not. Google can
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Because this hurts some people. The D crowd doesn't snob other
languages, in fact, people here often point at features of
other languages saying Da', can I have this, pleze?.
On 6/10/15 6:43 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 01:30:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far as
I'm aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a gender
neutral pronoun.
I am just saying that personally it sounds
On 06/11/2015 06:52 AM, Chris wrote:
In your case, the song reminds me of:
Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMAtbq0bjY
(God, I'm so old!) :-)
Oh man, that takes me back. 80's had the best pop music, IMHO. Miss that
stuff. Although, I still have trouble
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
It *is* very fun to implement. I'm more partial to this one though:
On 06/11/2015 07:37 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:21:27 UTC, Dave wrote:
Exceptions are not meant to force handling errors at he source.
This attitude is why so many exceptions go unhandled at the
upper
layers. When you have a top level that calls a function that
calls 50 other functions, each that throw a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:49:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
It *is* very fun to implement.
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