Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)

2014-06-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/7/2014 12:21 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? On those things, it *is* work! Even I've started giving up on proper grammar/capitalization/punctuation/spelling when

Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)

2014-06-07 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:21:15 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This

Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)

2014-06-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-07 06:21, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? I'm not so sure about that. English is full of shortenings which is proper English: do not - don't, you are - you're.

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-07 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Burp: Do you also have so much testing code in haskell? I am still a newbie in Haskell, so my Haskell usage patterns are not significant (but if you still want an answer: from what I've seen so far I need so much time and thinking to craft every single line of Haskell code that later

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-07 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Andrei Alexandrescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ The built-in can be deprecated. And the compromise solution is to return the result from the reverse() of Phobos. Sometimes breaking your the rules a little is the best thing