Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Fraser
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: I'm bad at meeting deadlines. Partly because I mismanage my time, but a large part of it is also because being a perfectionist, I never know when to _stop working on something_. After nearly two years in development, I think I'm ready to call MiniD 2 gold.

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.264.1245108702.13405.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... I recommend you read the spec and the language tutorial if you're wondering what the language is all about. Where is the language tutorial? = You're

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Matthews
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: What kind of performance, you ask? Well, almost every test I've run kicks the crap out of Python, and is more in the ballpark of Lua. The only tests that don't quite measure up are those which are GC-heavy. How does it compare to stackless python at doing the

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.264.1245108702.13405.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... I recommend you read the spec and the language tutorial if you're wondering what the

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Robert Clipshamrob...@octarineparrot.com wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: Any questions, just ask, please! Congrats on finally making a release! The only question I have really, is do you plan on making some release binaries/libraries? You mentioned about

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread grauzone
BCS wrote: Well, I can switch the default but, in my experience, most of the time repetition doesn't matter. I also dissagree on the relatively useless Oh really? I haven't used a graph data structure in some time. Most of them have been trees. And the cases I can think of, the repeated

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread BCS
Hello grauzone, BCS wrote: Well, I can switch the default but, in my experience, most of the time repetition doesn't matter. I also dissagree on the relatively useless Oh really? I haven't used a graph data structure in some time. Most of them have been trees. And the cases I can think

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread grauzone
Huh? You can simple cast the interface to an object. That is not safe. not all interface instances are D objects. There are people who care for COM and C++ interfaces? COM is Windows specific, and C++ vtables are... uh, I don't know, platform/architecture/compiler vendor specific? In any

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread BLS
Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but nevertheless Jesse's book was a kind of eye opener to me simply because it shows that

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread BCS
Hello grauzone, Huh? You can simple cast the interface to an object. That is not safe. not all interface instances are D objects. There are people who care for COM and C++ interfaces? COM is Windows specific, and C++ vtables are... uh, I don't know, platform/architecture/compiler vendor

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0200, BLS wrote: Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but nevertheless Jesse's book was a kind

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jesse Phillipsjessekphill...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0200, BLS wrote: Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,...

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:06 AM, BLSwindev...@hotmail.de wrote: Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, BLSwindev...@hotmail.de wrote: Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse