Re: Justin Bieber booked for Dconf 2013!

2013-04-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:05:06 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: I know you are all Bieber fans, so you'll be please to know he will be doing the Keynote. I happily cede the slot to him. (P.S. Bieber has been an undercover D coder for quite a while, though he has been

SDLang-D v0.8.3 - Improved API/Docs

2013-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky
SDLang-D is D library to read/write SDL (Simple Declarative Language), a data language like JSON/XML/YAML, but easier and cleaner. The main focuses of this version are a revamped API and improved/expanded GitHub-flavored documentation. // Sample, but useful, SDL: latest-version v0.8.3

Re: Three optimization tips for C++

2013-03-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:03:43 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Destroy (but upvote): http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1adf94/three_optimization_tips_for_c/ Andrei Makes me suddenly feel old and nostalgic for the 386 and 6502 ;) And arrays faster

Re: Unmanaged - a D framework on github

2013-03-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:11:13 +0100 Jakob Ovrum jakobov...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 10:23:05 UTC, David wrote: Afaik it is deprecated which really sucks imo. I don't know why the new operator is so important to some people. If templates had been in C++ before classes,

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:38:45 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 00:50:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:42:04 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: On Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 22:33:38 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:05:22 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've recently finished a couple of bug fixes and smaller improvements which should make Mono-D an even better IDE. And please, if you experience (and I'm sure you will) bugs or smaller (not only, but

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:10:07 +0100 Dicebot m.stras...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I have understood, Xamarin Studio is the name for latest MonoDevelop branch. At least it is installed in Arch Linux under the name monodevelop with version 4.x Oh, ok. And now that I look it up, Wikipedia's

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:47:43 +0100 Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/14/13, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: Wikipedia's MonoDevelop page says Xamarin offers a rebranded version of MonoDevlop 4.0 as Xamarin Studio which now uses platform

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:46:43 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: Nope. You can switch it so some darker schemes. I also switched it to some darker background because it also was too bright for me. I couldn't find any settings for that. Where are they?

Re: Mono-D v0.5.1.4 - Bugs 'n' Improvements

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:42:04 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: On Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 22:33:38 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:46:43 +0100 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: Nope. You can switch it so some darker schemes. I also switched it to some

Re: SDLang-D v0.8.2 - SDL lib for D (like JSON/XML, but nicer)

2013-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:35:45 +0100 Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote: As I understand, SDL doesn't support allman style of curly braces? Correct. This is because tags in SDL are newline-terminated. (It would be possible to allow it as a special-case, but I want to stay compatible SDL's official

Re: DUB 0.9.11 released

2013-03-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:00:31 +0100 Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: GitHub has been hit by a series of DDoS attacks recently: https://status.github.com/messages That's probably related to the issues you're seeing. rant One of the top things that made the internet the

Re: DUB 0.9.11 released

2013-03-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:08:01 +0100 Moritz Maxeiner mor...@ucworks.org wrote: On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 13:23:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: rant One of the top things that made the internet the great thing it is, heck one of the main *reasons* for the internet's precursor

SDLang-D v0.8.2 - SDL lib for D (like JSON/XML, but nicer)

2013-03-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
SDLang-D is D library to read/write SDL (Simple Declarative Language). SDL is a data language like JSON or XML, except it's less verbose and type-aware. Here's an example of SDL: // Websites SDLang-D https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D; Original_SDL

SDLang-D v0.8.1 - Initial release of SDL (Simple Declarative Language) for D

2013-02-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky
SDLang-D is an SDL (Simple Declarative Language) library for D. SDLang-D: https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D Original SDL: http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide SDL is similar to JSON or XML, except it's: * Less verbose * Type-aware This is what SDL looks like (some of these

Re: SDLang-D v0.8.1 - Initial release of SDL (Simple Declarative Language) for D

2013-02-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:41:01 +0100 Sönke Ludwig slud...@outerproduct.org wrote: WRT DUB, this package.json should work as the bare minimum: { name: sdlang-d, sourcePaths: [src], importPaths: [src] } The sourcePaths and importPaths will not be necessary in the future,

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:37:00 +0100 bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: A REPL is handy when you don't know the correct usage of something: you try something, read the error it gives you, ask for some help to the system, and try again, etc. I can do that just as easily without a

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:55:44 +0100 bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Nick Sabalausky: I can do that just as easily without a REPL. With a much reduced interactivity and more slowly. Slightly so. I wouldn't say much. But of course, I'm not saying that a REPL wouldn't be nice

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:44:18 -0800 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/17/2013 6:11 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Let me give you some examples of new features std.array.replace compile error (string and immutable string) There's no Duration.max Document extern

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:56:20 -0800 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/17/2013 5:40 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: The new change log also seems inaccessible from mobile. (At least it seems to freak out chrome on android). The changelog.html uses the same template as the rest of

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:30:27 -0500 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 2/17/13 8:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://digitalmars.com/d/download.html The dlang.org site isn't updated yet, but the downloads are there. I've updated the website, too. Enjoy! I'm

Re: vibe.d 0.7.12 released

2013-02-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:11:13 + Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 10:11 -0800, Ali Çehreli wrote: […] I use vibe.d as an example of how useful a tool D is. Recently, somebody has shown me a web server code written in Python: It was in 14 lines, could you

Re: vibe.d 0.7.12 released

2013-02-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:08:44 +0100 FG h...@fgda.pl wrote: Great project -- a flagship example of D's real world application! On 2013-02-11 19:11, Ali Çehreli wrote: same code as Python, translated to D. Of course, the solution that use vibe.d does not have Python's infamous GIL; instead,

Re: vibe.d 0.7.12 released

2013-02-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:53:55 +0100 Sönke Ludwig slud...@outerproduct.org wrote: Changes: - Refactored the MongoDB client to better match the actual database structure + range interface for query results (by Dicebot) - A number of important fixes in the HttpClient and ConnectionPool

Re: Higgs, a JavaScript JIT done in D

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:19 + Dejan Lekic dejan.le...@gmail.com wrote: Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:15:09 +0100 Michael p...@m1xa.com wrote: Best code, it's which works and the client is satisfied. And the end users are satisfied. AND doesn't cause problems

Re: Higgs, a JavaScript JIT done in D

2013-02-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:56:12 +0100 bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: The author has used asserts at the beginning of methods, outside a the pre-condition, this is silly. Why is it silly? (Genuine question) Not using foreach loops on numerical intervals is a waste of fingers and

[OT] Re: DPaste ain't going anywhere

2013-01-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:34:48 +0100 nazriel s...@dzfl.pl wrote: Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev aka CyberShadow, who donated money in order to extended domain. Things need a bit of time in order to make everything work, of course banks being the biggest bottleneck as usually. For those who

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:09:21 -0800 Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 00:52:32 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/9/13 12:43 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, January 04, 2013 14:13:22 Walter Bright wrote: It's THE SAME LIST as in the bugzilla

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:54:54 -0500 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: Yea, this change is definitely a notable step backwards in presentation and usability. And it doesn't help that, once again, the changelog is showing the *next* release with no indication

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:11:30 +0100 deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 05:29:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:18:11 -0800 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 1/7/2013 3:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2013

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:42:53 -0500 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: Like browsers, for instance. When Microsoft had their browser merely uninstallable... Erm... s/uninstallable/non-uninstallable/ (unless I'm remembering wrong)

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:57:07 -0500 Matthew Caron matt.ca...@redlion.net wrote: On 01/05/2013 03:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:20:19 -0500 Matthew Caron matt.ca...@redlion.net wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Why would you need to? If your mail

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:08:58 +0100 deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: However, it is just to discover that this do not work : struct Bar {} auto foo(ref Bar bar) {} foo(Bar()); // Now this is an error ! I still have code broken all over the place. IIRC, they tried to include this

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:18:11 -0800 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 1/7/2013 3:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:08:58 +0100 deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: However, it is just to discover that this do not work : struct Bar {} auto foo(ref

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:32:28 + Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: […] Also I think another part of what makes Google (and Apple) so dangerous is that unlike MS, most people are still hailing them as wonderful

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:25:48 + Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 11:42 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: […] Yea, I've noticed the same thing :( People are so enamored with their iDevices, that they think Apple can do no wrong. At least that's the only

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:20:19 -0500 Matthew Caron matt.ca...@redlion.net wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it rebuild. I don't store email on the server, I store it locally. I gave that up years ago when I

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:18:07 + Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 02:20 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Yea. Google's Don't be evil is a complete load of self-rationalizing bullshit. I mean, christ, their whole business is based on mining/selling personal

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:09:24 + Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:17 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] Whoa. Four instances I run my own SMTP and IMAP server in about as many paragraphs. You must feel quite strongly about that... :-) Originally

Re: vibe.d 0.7.10 released

2013-01-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:11:23 +0100 mist n...@none.none wrote: Last time I was performance testing vibe it was almost 4x faster than node.js and 1.5 faster than similar Erlang framework (can't remember its name now). Plus all static typing and sane async syntax goodies as a cherry on top.

Re: Awesomium D wrappers/bindings

2012-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:22:28 +0100 Sönke Ludwig slud...@outerproduct.org wrote: It also doesn't seem to be ported to the mobile platforms, which makes it an uncertain development target. Don't the mobile platforms provide web-view components anyway? Or does all the sandboxing on them prevent

Re: User Defined Attributes

2012-11-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
First of all: Awesome. Secondly: Fastest-growing thread ever? ;)

Re: vibe.d 0.7.9 released

2012-11-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:28:55 +0100 Faux Amis f...@amis.com wrote: On 02/11/2012 00:14, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If you're not scared off of node.js yet, read this: https://semitwist.com/mirror/node-js-is-cancer.html (The original link is dead, so I have it mirrored there, minus the CSS so

Re: vibe.d 0.7.9 released

2012-11-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:29:25 +0100 Rob T r...@ucora.com wrote: On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 19:23:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-11-01 19:53, Rob T wrote: I know that the druntime will not link as-is without a rebuild to enable PIC, so have you found this to be a problem,

Re: vibe.d 0.7.9 released

2012-11-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:53:37 +0100 Rob T r...@ucora.com wrote: I'm also wondering how the co-routines are working out with vibe? I thought of using them, but my current design will be using message passing instead, where the code is broken up into small parts to perform the co-processing.

Re: vibe.d 0.7.9 released

2012-11-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:45:17 +0100 Faux Amis f...@amis.com wrote: I have very little server exp and the little I have is from node.js tutorials. I have heard about node.js being used as a game server. Could vibe.d be used as a multiplayer game server? And, how (well) does it scale? Far

Re: Article: Dispelling Common D Myths

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:03:51 +0200 mist n...@none.none wrote: On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 07:02:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Some stuff I thought needed to be said and shared: http://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/dispelling-common-d-myths Have translated it to russian

Re: Article: Dispelling Common D Myths

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 18:49:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, October 11, 2012 14:43:54 Nick Sabalausky wrote: Cool! First time I've ever been translated :) Well, it can't be all that hard. Most of the time it just amounts to Javascript sucks! or Get off my lawn!, right

Re: ddox documentation generator

2012-10-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Server overloaded? Trying to connect to 'vibed.org' just hangs (without actually timing out, at least not yet).

Re: D 1.076 Alpha for Windows 64 bits, works with VS 2010

2012-10-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:38:43 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 9/30/2012 9:35 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 10/1/12, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Also, consider that in C++ you can throw any type, such as an int. There is no credible way to make

Re: Just a reminder, I'll be at GOTO next week!

2012-10-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:24:27 +0200 Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: Been there once, visiting some friends at the university, they used to complain that the city is quite boring to live on, at least as a student. Students will say that about any city. It's the standard college excuse

Re: Component Programming in D

2012-10-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:27:55 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10u6sk/component_programming_in_d/ Excellent article!

Re: Component Programming in D

2012-10-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:05:08 +0200 Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 17:27:55 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10u6sk/component_programming_in _d/ It's definitely the sort of article that we've needed to show

Re: D 1.076 Alpha for Windows 64 bits, works with VS 2010

2012-10-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:16:13 +0200 Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-10-01 06:35, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Is that a bug or a feature? :) Actually you can do the same thin in Ruby, at least with strings. This is can be kind of nice, no need to create a new exception type. But in

Re: D 1.076 Alpha for Windows 64 bits, works with VS 2010

2012-10-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:14:45 +0200 Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-10-01 14:30, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Haxe can throw anything, too. I've always found it borderline useless, and frequently a pain. I find it quite annoying to have to create new classes for exceptions all

Re: D 1.076 Alpha for Windows 64 bits, works with VS 2010

2012-09-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:20:12 -0700 Brad Roberts bra...@slice-2.puremagic.com wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Walter Bright wrote: True, but I would never write code that tried to throw an exception across language boundaries, anyway. It's just asking for trouble. And that's fine for your

Re: Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:06:19 +0200 David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote: The code on slide 6 contains an issue resp. inaccuracy: Not all random access ranges are sliceable. Sometimes I wonder (and this is not at all intended as a snide remark!) if it is too easy to make mistakes

Re: GtkD 2.0 released, Gtk+ 3 with D.

2012-09-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:34:26 +0200 Mike Wey mike-...@example.com wrote: As far as i know the custom windows theming engine is deprecated in favor of the css solution. Is that css solution still *a* theming engine, or am I misunderstanding it? Or I guess what I really mean is, does GTK3 at

Re: OT: Speed reading

2012-08-31 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:41:58 +0200 Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote: On Friday, 31 August 2012 at 01:05:00 UTC, bearophile wrote: Walter Bright: Speed reading works fine when reading a bestseller novel. It's a complete failure at reading intellectually dense material. But if the novel

Re: OT: Speed reading (was: Re: The best programming advice I ever got)

2012-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:45:13 +0200 xenon325 1...@mail.net wrote: In the context of learning to learn. Have anyone tried speed reading [1] ? I'm thinking about taking a course. Seems to be extremely useful, but effort is pretty big (few hours each day for few months, and I'm ... let's say

Re: OT: Speed reading

2012-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:04:58 +0200 bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Walter Bright: Speed reading works fine when reading a bestseller novel. It's a complete failure at reading intellectually dense material. But if the novel you have speed read was very good you have missed

Re: Walter charms the audience at Sioux

2012-08-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:49:02 +0200 Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.com wrote: There's no such thing as a perfect language. Well of course there isn't: D3 isn't made yet! ;)

Re: Social Influence on Language Adoption

2012-08-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:19:23 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: It isn't surprising, but is still bizarre to me how many people correlated static types with some negative things like expressivity and enjoyment. I agree. C++ and Java have damaged many minds. Static

Re: Social Influence on Language Adoption

2012-08-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:43:24 +0200 Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote: Still other of our results contradict common beliefs: we find significant developer unease with static type systems. Python/JS script kiddies? And PHP monkeys.

Re: Walter charms the audience at Sioux

2012-08-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:18:45 +0200 Minas Mina minas_mina1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Really nice (and fun) presentation! I wish I could've been there! And what's the deal with D3(?) guys? Purely hypothetical talk right now. No real plans for a D3 ATM. Aren't you satisfied with D2? One can

Re: Mono-D v0.4.1.2 - Heavily improved performance + Completion bugs removed

2012-08-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:25 +0200 alex i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: class D : C!(A!int.SubClass) { } // is not allowed, but A!int is -- why? IIRC, I've had problems doing anything complex in a no-paren template parameter. I always figured if you're doing no-parens, it had to be a single

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:21:03 -0500 Sean Cavanaugh worksonmymach...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody knows how floats work, without being locked in a closet for a at least a week and told to change their doubles back into floats and fix their code, since thats where 99% of precision problems actually

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:12:10 +0200 Jesse Phillips jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 18:06:12 UTC, F i L wrote: If the compiler warned against this error the programmer would likely fix the code to a state which prevents the potential bug this example was

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:44:12 +0200 Jesse Phillips jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 01:07:43 UTC, F i L wrote: Your example: float f; if (condition1) f = 7; ... code ... if (condition2) ++f; is flawed in that

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:16:37 -0700 Davidson Corry davidsonco...@comcast.net wrote: On 8/18/2012 7:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If that's the case, then the code is far too damn fragile in the first place. This: float f; if (condition1) f = 7; Is bad

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:44:52 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/18/2012 7:27 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Bullshit, I've used C# which does exactly what Walter is arguing against, and the result never involved getting annoyed and blindly tossing in an =0. I've seen

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:52:01 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/18/2012 8:31 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: enum BOOL { TRUE, FALSE, FILE_NOT_FOUND } Heh, that's probably the #1 classic Daily WTF :) I used to work with digital electronics. There,

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:12:33 -0700 Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: FWIW, I'm very surprised by how negatively many programmers seem to react to NaN. I think that how D handles it is great. Yea, it's kind of like Unicode: ASCII is much simpler and therefore far more enticing. But

Fighting Wiki Spam (Was: Wiki4D is down)

2012-08-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:58:02 +0200 Justin C Calvarese jccalvares...@gmail.com wrote: If we did go to a new wiki system, I'd like to establish better security to prevent link spam. We could start off with having a small team with write-access and we could liberally grant permission to new team

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:21:48 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/12/2012 10:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Even still, it's a far cry to compare ditching 16-bit with (effectively) shunning 32-bit. Yes, 64-bit is bocoming more and more important, and yes, 32-bit

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:23:09 +0200 Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 01:18:14 UTC, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: On 8/12/2012 8:15 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 8/13/12, Sean Cavanaughworksonmymach...@gmail.com wrote: we had to modify the code Sure enough

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:42:19 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 04:44:43 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: It's not the current plan. Frankly, I think 32 bits is rapidly becoming irrelevant on the desktop. Bullshit. While I agree

Re: OSX and 64-bit [Re: First working Win64 program!]

2012-08-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:25:29 +0200 Paulo Pinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 07:05:11 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Apple's strategy appears to be that computers are non-upgradable, non-repairable, disposable items that last until the next release: It is this

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:12:43 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/12/2012 1:38 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: One question: Will the 32-bit tool chain also be able to use the MSVC runtime and linker eventually? It's not the current plan. Frankly, I think 32 bits is

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:54:07 -0700 Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 8/12/2012 9:44 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Frankly, I think 32 bits is rapidly becoming irrelevant on the desktop. Bullshit. There will always be plenty

Re: 2.060 on reddit

2012-08-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:31:27 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: ... with a few stats. Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xm5y0/d_260_released_d_programming_language/ Andrei Wow, that's much more positive towards D than Reddit used to be.

Re: Pull freeze

2012-08-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:24:57 +0200 Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-08-01 00:55, Nick Sabalausky wrote: +1 ALL Along those lines, I really think dmd-beta should me moved to the newsgroups. Granted, I am biased since I hate mailing lists. But moving it to NG means

Re: Pull freeze

2012-07-31 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:46:52 +0200 David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote: On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 15:54:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I thought a good thing to do is use branching for releases, and that we can start doing that without much difficulty. No? I think doing

Re: Wiki page for C bindings / wrappers and reimplementations

2012-07-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:37:44 +0200 Pragma Tix pragma...@orange.fr wrote: Am 30.07.2012 16:50, schrieb Marco Leise: I find that we lack a way to search for ported C headers or D alternatives that do the same. So I started a Wiki page here: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?CLibraryBindings

Re: dnotify

2012-07-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:56:48 +0200 Marco Leise marco.le...@gmx.de wrote: if I had access to a Wiki about D... You do! http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi

Re: Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

2012-07-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:24:04 -0700 Adam Wilson flybo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:17:38 -0700, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-07-16 21:37, Adam Wilson wrote: ./build does the following for all projects git fetch origin git merge origin/master make clean -f

Re: Link: on Software inventory

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:48:21 +0200 Roman D. Boiko r...@d-coding.com wrote: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/07/09.html This is not about D only, but for me looks relevant enough to discuss and possibly learn from. If not, please ignore and sorry for off-topic. It's interesting,

Re: Dpaste - online compiler and collaboration tool dedicated to D Programming Language.

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:49:11 +0200 nazriel nazriel6...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings. I would like to share with you, Beta version of http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/ Dpaste is online compiler and collaboration tool dedicated to D Programming Language. It allows to run your D Code snippets

Re: Uniform Function Call Syntax in D - GameDev.net

2012-07-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:13:10 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vvpfy/uniform_function_call_syntax_in_d_gamedevnet/ Andrei Good article. One of the commenters brought up a point about confusion from possible conflicts

Re: Ask Slashdot: Best Solution For an Email Discussion Forum?

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Tim Krimm twkr...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cpkwpdandxhsblfzq...@forum.dlang.org... ... later in discussion The D programming language people have successfully combined a mailing list and tradition web forum into one. What's more, the web forum is lightning fast to boot (fastest

Re: Vibe.d 0.7.4 release

2012-06-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Sönke Ludwig slud...@outerproduct.org wrote in message news:jqg47l$qem$1...@digitalmars.com... Version 0.7.4 is a larger release after some releases that were mostly for bugfixing and performance tuning. There have been a lot of improvements and fixes since the first release in april. The

Re: Missing post?

2012-05-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:jpuobn$30v8$1...@digitalmars.com... There's a post that made it on forum.dlang.org but not on the NNTP site. Did that happen to anyone else? http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jptjlb$qh1$1...@digitalmars.com It showed up on

Re: Robert Schadek's Distributed Multithreaded Caching D Compiler

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Regan Heath re...@netmail.co.nz wrote in message news:op.wes9aqg154x...@puck.auriga.bhead.co.uk... On Thu, 24 May 2012 11:56:56 +0100, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: On 2012-05-24 11:47, deadalnix wrote: Why not attend? I'd love to do that, but it will be impossible for me. Coming from

Re: dpj for Windows

2012-05-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote in message news:qufvdhexcdzabuzqr...@forum.dlang.org... dpj is a mini-ide for the D programming language. http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/05/20/dpj That's a good start! Not bad. Is it written in D? A few notes: - It's much faster to just pass all the files

Re: denv - D version of rbenv

2012-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Masahiro Nakagawa repeate...@gmail.com wrote in message news:niagensidmjugqbxr...@forum.dlang.org... On Friday, 4 May 2012 at 17:54:35 UTC, simendsjo wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2012 17:54:11 +0200, Masahiro Nakagawa repeate...@gmail.com wrote: I use rbenv to manage multiple versions of Ruby.

dvm (Was: denv - D version of rbenv)

2012-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote in message news:jo1gri$1prf$1...@digitalmars.com... On 2012-05-04 21:38, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote: Yes. But I don't know the detail of dvm implementation. rbenv is a small and compact version manager than rvm. (If you want to know more comparison of rbenv and

Re: dvm (Was: denv - D version of rbenv)

2012-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote in message news:jo1jnt$1vfl$1...@digitalmars.com... Last time it was brought up, I was unsure of quite what you had in mind. I was under the impression that you wanted to redesign the whole way the command system *worked*. It's occurred to me that's maybe not

Re: bootDoc - advanced DDoc framework using Twitter's Bootstrap

2012-05-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jakob Ovrum jakobov...@gmail.com wrote in message news:lbskaseedspulyyna...@forum.dlang.org... On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 21:42:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: While it would be nice if the nav tree were still there w/o JS, and I'm not personally a fan of CSS(or HTML)-based frames

Re: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
SomeDude lovelyd...@mailmetrash.com wrote in message news:ypakkndfsibcbgelj...@forum.dlang.org... On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 08:26:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: A little write-up I just did on something I thought was pretty cool: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration

Re: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote in message news:jnr241$nh1$1...@digitalmars.com... SomeDude lovelyd...@mailmetrash.com wrote in message news:ypakkndfsibcbgelj...@forum.dlang.org... On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 08:26:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: A little write-up I

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