Re: Very short article with with manual memory management in C++ and D.

2013-02-07 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 21:35:12 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 13:16:45 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: I just wanted to show that the pointer tricks for memory management are not an exclusivity from C and C++. I get it! Just one more note, would you have done any

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs).

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 2/7/13, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs). Can you give us a teaser on generally what kind of work they do?

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Maxim Fomin
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. This is nice. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works or it doesn't. The other issues are a work in

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Nick B
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 21:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear,

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread David
Am 07.02.2013 22:11, schrieb Walter Bright: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Oleg Kuporosov
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency (c)

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Marco Leise
Am Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:01:10 +0100 schrieb Maxim Fomin ma...@maxim-fomin.ru: On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last weeks there seems to be increasing dynamic linking

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-07 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/7/2013 10:36 PM, Oleg Kuporosov wrote: That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Initially, Linux. Once that is worked out, doing the others should be straightforward.