Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also a difference between gratuitous complexity and finding the underlying simplicity. It's a tricky thing

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2015 2:47 PM, weaselcat wrote: On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 3:53 PM, ketmar wrote: filling bugs like this huge project not compiling! is not working, as nobody wants to run dustmite on such projects, people just waiting for issue author to provide more information. Realistically, people who want to work on bug fixing are going to work on

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 8:53 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: It's also the view of Feynman, not to mention many great minds of the past. Ie it is limiting to insist on data before forming a strong opinion about something (which is not to say that one may not change one's mind in the face of contrary data).

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 7:06 PM, weaselcat wrote: vibe has (experimental?) green threads, doesn't it? I don't keep up with vibe, so I may be wrong. I don't know, but if it does have good 'uns they should be moved into Phobos!

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 1:44 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: I know it's a bit unfair in places and it's got a click bait title but who cares? I got my point across and I think people understand where i'm coming from. It seems to have got really popular and I've been swamped with mail, etc. I think it's the

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2015 12:40 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: (Almost) All publicity is good publicity. I attended a presentation at NWCPP on Go last week. I have never written a Go program, so filter my opinion on that. It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/2015 1:07 AM, thedeemon wrote: I don't see any mention of DIP25 here (Sealed references - return ref arguments etc.). Was it implemented and included in this release? Yes.

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/2015 10:58 AM, Dicebot wrote: Arch Linux packages have been uploaded. I am very grateful to Martin for handling this release. It was done very professionally and thanks to beta discussions/testing we did some great breakthrough in release stability by providing deprecation paths for

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/23/2015 8:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: No. It sounds like what's probably needed is to find ways to encourage sponsorship, and for that to work, we probably need to spread knowledge of D further so that its adoption grows, and charging for the online content

Re: serve - A simple HTTP server for static files

2015-03-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/22/2015 3:33 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 07:11:05 UTC, Suliman wrote: Could you explain why pure vibed do not good for static files? It's mainly a replacement for `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`, and is just a very small tool around vibe.d's serveStaticFiles, which

Re: New Russian doc in wiki.dlang.org

2015-03-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/19/2015 4:41 AM, Suliman wrote: My friend Ruslan wrote pretty big doc for D-noobs about using D. It's pretty much inspired by Ali book (thanks Ali!) but not so big. I hope that doc will help to newcomers to start programming. Any feed back are welcome!

Re: dfmt 0.2.0

2015-03-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/17/2015 12:34 PM, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt 0.2.0 is available at https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/releases/tag/v0.2.0. dfmt is a formatter for D source code. Version 0.2.0 fixes several bugs and includes improved line wrapping logic. The project now has 85 regression test cases and is

Andrei Alexandrescu on D at YOW2014: Local imports, relaxed functional purity, generative programming

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2yt1ek/andrei_alexandrescu_on_d_at_yow2014_local_imports/

Re: Andrei Alexandrescu on D at YOW2014: Local imports, relaxed functional purity, generative programming

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/12/2015 1:46 PM, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 20:39:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2yt1ek/andrei_alexandrescu_on_d_at_yow2014_local_imports/ http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mdsh5n$2kta$1...@digitalmars.com http

Re: dfmt 0.1.3 (codename: yebblied)

2015-03-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/8/2015 12:51 AM, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a source code formatter for D. v0.1.3 fixes 34 issues from v0.1.2. The codename is inspired by somebody who may or may not* have filed 45 Github issues, 20 of them in a single day. Pretty dazz!

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 10:43 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: The difficulty here is turning a personal preference into a social orthodoxy. A consistent style is necessary for Phobos. For your own projects, D doesn't dictate any particular style.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 1:48 AM, Brian Schott wrote: The serious answer is that there's a lot of special casing that I'm still trying to figure out. Ah. I had thought that maybe there was an obvious algorithm I didn't think of!

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 2:47 AM, Stefan Koch wrote: I'd like to hear your definition of simple. It's easy to understand, and one could write one from scratch over a weekend. I haven't done any statistics, but I'd bet that that parse.c lexer.c are among the most stable parts of dmd judging by change

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 1:54 AM, Brian Schott wrote: On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 09:39:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: True, but on the other hand, a D lexer and parser are pretty simple. Did you mean simple compared to C++? It's simple in both absolute terms and relative to C++ terms. It's not as simple

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 11:55 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: The core problem here is teletype, monospace font thinking. Using a proper proportional font for you code and you rapidly lose the need for all this alignment stuff. Real point but expressed as a bit of a troll, mostly to

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 2:31 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Remember a tab is not a number of spaces, it is semantic markup. All I can say is good luck with that. ASCII is not a markup language, and trying to reinvent it as one is doomed to failure. I can also say from experience

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/5/2015 7:15 PM, Brian Schott wrote: You probably feel that way because tabs are better. dfmt only defaults to spaces because that's what's in the Phobos style guide. Spaces are used in Phobos because no two tools agree on what the tab size should be.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/3/2015 3:03 PM, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt works by re-using my existing lexer and parser. The parser is run on the code first so that the formatting step knows a few things like the difference between the binary and unary forms of *. Line splitting is figured out using a badly mangled

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/5/2015 1:04 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It would be good if the D implemented D parser were though. Parsing to create an AST is needed for many things. If each tool in the tool chain implements it's own… it just seems wrong. True, but on the other hand, a D lexer

Re: GSOC 2015 - GNU dmd

2015-03-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/3/2015 1:15 PM, notna wrote: not sure if someone should inform them about the DMD name clash... or just enjoy the popularity ;) http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd I sent them a note.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/19/2015 6:21 PM, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a D source code formatting tool. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/ https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Thanks for doing this. It's an important part of the D toolchain we need to have. At some point I want to merge it

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/2/2015 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected. Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor. I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that

Re: We are Beta (2.067.0-b2)

2015-02-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/19/2015 2:06 PM, Brian Schott wrote: On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 14:13:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Find more information on the dmd-beta mailing list. http://forum.dlang.org/thread/54e41ca2.4060...@dawg.eu Many of the beta-2 files are missing from downloads.dlang.org, and all of

Re: We are Beta (2.067.0-b2)

2015-02-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/18/2015 6:13 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Find more information on the dmd-beta mailing list. http://forum.dlang.org/thread/54e41ca2.4060...@dawg.eu Thank you, Martin!

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/2015 9:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Guess I better find out what AsciiDoc is then. Wee, it has macros: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc.css-embedded.html#_macros Ddoc leads the way in innovation again!

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/16/2015 3:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: [0] https://leanpub.com/ctfe Thank you. I bought my copy!

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight into production, and

Re: Berlin D Meetup Feb 2015

2015-02-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/7/2015 1:45 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 11:14:28 UTC, Ben wrote: The next Berlin D Meetup will be happening on Friday the 20th of February at 19:30. The venue will be Berlin Co-Op (http://co-up.de/) on the 3rd floor who have the equipment for us to do

Re: DConf 2015 Second call for proposals

2015-02-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/10/2015 1:50 PM, John Colvin wrote: I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so I presume there isn't any financial assistance for travel costs for speakers this year. Is that correct? It'll be the same as usual - airplane/car/hotel

Re: Martin Nowak is our new release czar

2015-02-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/4/2015 4:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o) Congrats, Martin!

Re: D Lecture in Tel Aviv, Israel

2015-02-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/2/2015 3:56 AM, Omri Palmon wrote: Weka.IO is proud to host a lecture about D, sharing our experience of implementing a trailblazing distributed storage system in D. Lecture will take place on Sunday, February 15th, 19:00, at Weka.IO offices, Beit Shamai 10 Tel Aviv. Please confirm your

Re: Interfacing D to existing C++ code

2015-01-29 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/29/2015 1:58 PM, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: I pushed some code for string here (nothing fancy yet) https://github.com/gchatelet/dlang_cpp_std/blob/master/cpp_std.d The linker complains about missing std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::__ctor() where it should

Re: This Week in D, Issue 3

2015-01-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/25/2015 9:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss Awesome job (as usual!). Thanks, Adam!

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/23/2015 8:19 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/interfacing-d-to-legacy-c-code-a-summary-of-a-competing-languages-capabilities/1406 I'm amazed someone made the effort to transcribe the talk!

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/24/2015 1:32 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 05:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/22/2015 12:52 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Me too, is there any video available? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM I can't bear to watch it, you'll have to do it for me

Interfacing D to existing C++ code

2015-01-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Mandatory reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tdy5z/interfacing_d_to_legacy_c_code_by_walter_bright/ There's been a lot of interest in this topic.

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/22/2015 12:52 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 17:21:42 UTC, Meta wrote: On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 01:09:13 UTC, FrankLike wrote: On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 00:51:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/21/2015 4:42 AM, FrankLike wrote: How about

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/22/2015 12:52 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Me too, is there any video available? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM I can't bear to watch it, you'll have to do it for me!

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

2015-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/2014 3:14 PM, Elie Morisse wrote: Hi everyone, I have the pleasure to announce to you all the existence of a modified LDC able to interface directly to C++ libraries, wiping out the need to write bindings: https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso I think this is an exciting

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

2015-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/21/2015 3:21 PM, Elie Morisse wrote: I'm still working as fast as I can to get Ogre3D working. Ogre3D makes wide usage of the standard C++ library so getting it running would be a milestone and at that point most C++ libraries will be usable or in close reach as well. And it'd also make a

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/21/2015 4:42 AM, FrankLike wrote: How about the result? ??

Re: DConf 2015 discounted hotel rooms now available

2015-01-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/16/2015 2:17 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Note: I didn't realize this originally, but when I booked my flight, the prices are much higher than they should be, and less availability. I realized the reason why -- Monday is Memorial Day in the US, just about everyone has it off. Just a

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/2015 7:15 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: BTW one commented out section here is FAQs and blog posts. My plan there is to highlight D.learn and SO questions that pop up a bunch and other, longer articles people write. I just didn't have any this week so I left it out, but hopefully we'll get

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/2015 6:08 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any feedback welcome! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a weekend release, so if you want something to appear

Re: D idioms list

2015-01-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/11/2015 4:24 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Feel free to send stuff to ACCU's CVu or Overload. http://accu.org/index.php/journal Good idea!

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/11/2015 12:17 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I digress, I will have to sit down and write some things up and we'll see where I get. Looking forward to it!

Re: Utah Valley University is a sponsor of DConf 2015

2015-01-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/9/2015 10:37 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I encourage everyone to apply for visa as soon as possible. US visa process can be frustratingly delayed depending on many unknown factors. We've lost speakers in the past due to visa delays. I agree that it's never too early to get this done.

Re: D idioms list

2015-01-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/10/2015 1:28 PM, weaselcat wrote: Sorry for the off-topic noise, but where will you be publishing your articles since Dr.Dobbs has closed? Sorry if you have answered this elsewhere. It's a good question. Dr. Dobb's has graciously given me permission to republish them, and I'll post them

Re: D idioms list

2015-01-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/8/2015 2:21 AM, ponce wrote: I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested. My contribution: http://digitalmars.com/articles/b68.html

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/10/2015 9:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/10/15 9:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/10/15 8:15 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: In any event, are you doing flash talks this year? I don't think I could find something to spend more than 15 minutes talking about

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/8/2015 8:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:31:37 Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 6 January 2015 at 23:24, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Hello, Exciting

Re: Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

2015-01-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/6/2015 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote: I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to. http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html Hmm, I wonder how good name textmac

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/7/2015 12:06 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 07:37:10 Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: is it crazy to think that there are some people somewhere who can't stand D and anything D related? Well, _I_ wouldn't want to see a D on my

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/7/2015 11:05 AM, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert wrote: We'd like your presentation proposal, too! It's an honor to be reinvited :) I'm honored you're a member of our community. Truly the best thing about working on D is the type of people it attracts. Are there specific topics you'd

Re: Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

2015-01-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/7/2015 3:46 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated to umount. Typing must have been really hard. It had to do with file extensions for macro assembler being .MAC, and people just wound up calling them mac files. Just like people call

Re: DMD's lexer available on code.dlang.org

2015-01-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/6/2015 1:37 AM, Vadim Lopatin wrote: I have a bit similar project - lexer for D written in D. Written just based on Lexical documentation page. https://github.com/buggins/ddc Trying make it fast and to do as few memory allocations as possible. Should also make it available on

Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

2015-01-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to. http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html

Re: Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

2015-01-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/6/2015 8:42 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote: Maybe add a link to the existing documentation for how to use Ddoc so newbies don't have to search for it? good idea

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/6/2015 10:08 PM, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert wrote: On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 00:21:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit downvotes seem to be the most arbitrary things on the Internet. I don't understand them at all. r/programming seems to be have become fairly hostile to new

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/5/2015 5:39 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: That's really funny that this is your topic. I was planning on going a blog post on almost the exact same thing. I really wish I could come and see it but I don't know how bad busing out there would be. :( There is good bus service to the Microsoft

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/5/2015 5:31 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Will audio be available afterwards? NWCPP usually will post the video afterwards. At a slight tangent, has anything more recent been written on the C++ interface? I understand it is more complete than what is described on the Wiki/at dlang.org and

I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://nwcpp.org/ All are invited. Now I just have to write the presentation :-(

Re: DMD's lexer available on code.dlang.org

2015-01-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/4/2015 5:07 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: I've created a dub package for the D version of DMD's lexer, generated automatically from the C++ source. github: https://github.com/yebblies/ddmd dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/ddmd Great! Thank you!

Re: My D Cookbook on sale: $5 ebook from the publisher

2014-12-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/28/2014 1:13 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just noticed they temporarily reduced the price of my book: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook If you haven't gotten a copy yet, start off the new year right! :) I already bought the hardcopy, but I noticed I could get

Re: Get your D Lang shirts!

2014-12-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/27/2014 1:32 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 24 Dec 2014 22:20, Vic via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: http://teespring.com/d-lang-sv Non profit, I hope other follow suit. I like

Re: D is one if Wired's 10 Most Hardcore Tech Stories of 2014

2014-12-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/2014 10:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/wired-enterprise-year/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2qioj8/dlang_story_makes_wireds_10_most_hardcore_tech/

Re: D is one if Wired's 10 Most Hardcore Tech Stories of 2014

2014-12-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/27/2014 7:36 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 11:15:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/26/2014 10:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/wired-enterprise-year/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2qioj8

D is one if Wired's 10 Most Hardcore Tech Stories of 2014

2014-12-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/wired-enterprise-year/

Re: bessel[IJKY] functions

2014-12-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/25/2014 9:55 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Ported from r-project: http://code.dlang.org/packages/bessel Nice! Thank you. I hope this is the start of more R code being ported! ARR R R R R R R R Rrrr -- Mr. Krabs

Re: D lang meeting: Silicon Valley; Jan 22

2014-12-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/24/2014 2:20 PM, Vic wrote: RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Sillicon-Valley/events/219413448/ Wish I could attend!

Re: Programming in D book, decent ebook versions

2014-12-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/15/2014 2:25 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: - Removed the unrelated Turkish menu from the English pages - Improved the ebook formats - Removed the download page and linked the ebook versions directly from the main page instead I consider these beta quality: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ (I

Re: Programming in D book, decent ebook versions

2014-12-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/18/2014 11:26 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: So, it is readable on your Kindle, right? Haven't checked. Have you noticed the book does not have any foreword? ;) Looking at my shoe ...

Sargon component library now on Dub

2014-12-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://code.dlang.org/packages/sargon These two modules failed to generate much interest in incorporating them into Phobos, but I'm still rather proud of them :-) Here they are: ◦sargon.lz77 - algorithms to compress and expand with LZ77 compression algorithm ◦sargon.halffloat - IEEE 754

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/3/2014 1:32 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: thank you. but i mean that dsource.org is still poping up in results and it contains alot of obsolete projects. some projects was forked long time ago and their dsource pages weren't updated, some are just dead. people keep hitting

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/3/2014 2:42 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Violence is not the answer. I'll look into adding a warning banner to the site template. Alternatively, replace the pages in dsource with forwarding pages. The page forwarded to can have two links - one to the original page, the other to the

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/2/2014 2:20 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance. Although opinions exist that the site should

Re: undeaD - zombie phobos modules back from the grave

2014-12-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/1/2014 4:33 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 07:53:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Well, I had tagged 1.0.0, then fixed a problem :-) Well 1.0.0 is reserved for the first stable release, usually you'd begin with 0.1.0 or so. Good idea BTW. Since these are former

Re: undeaD - zombie phobos modules back from the grave

2014-12-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/1/2014 2:19 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: This was a great idea. Aw, shucks! :-)

undeaD - zombie phobos modules back from the grave

2014-11-30 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://code.dlang.org/packages/undead https://github.com/DigitalMars/undeaD In upgrading old D code, one time consuming aspect is reworking code that depends on old Phobos modules that have been taken out behind the woodshed and shot. Sometimes, there's significantly more work involved than

O'Reilly conference needs D presentations!

2014-11-30 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
You guys are working on a lot of great stuff that'll make for very interesting talks. http://softwarearchitecturecon.com/sa2015 Proposals are due Dec. 2. I'm submitting mine - see you there!

Re: undeaD - zombie phobos modules back from the grave

2014-11-30 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/30/2014 11:43 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-12-01 05:07, Walter Bright wrote: There wasn't significant work to get these modules up to date with the latest compiler? No, not much. bitarray took a bit longer, as it was a D1 module. I'm new to dub, so if I botched that up, please do

Re: D is for Data Science

2014-11-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2014 2:25 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: [...] Excellent comments. Please post them on the reddit page!

Re: D is for Data Science

2014-11-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2014 7:27 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Just browsing reddit and found this article posted about D. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2n9gfb/d_is_for_data_science/cmbn83i Thought I'd post this as a counterpoint to the recent please break our code thread.

Re: D is for Data Science

2014-11-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2014 4:50 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 00:34:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Thought I'd post this as a counterpoint to the recent please break our code thread. I would caution against putting very much weight in Reddit opinions - there's people who

Re: On the meaning of string.length

2014-11-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/19/2014 7:06 AM, Upvoter wrote: On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 at 14:33:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I think the auto decoding in phobos was and is a mistake. I agree when you say auto decoding is a good choice. Uh-oh!

Re: Blog Post - Reducing vibe.d turnaround time (Part 2 Less Compiling)

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/17/2014 4:41 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Second part on my series to reduce vibe.d turnaround time. In this part we'll reduce compilation time by 60%. https://code.dawg.eu/reducing-vibed-turnaround-time-part-2-less-compiling.html -Martin Should say in the title that you reduced build times

Re: Blog Post - Reducing vibe.d turnaround time (Part 2 Less Compiling)

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/17/2014 4:41 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Second part on my series to reduce vibe.d turnaround time. In this part we'll reduce compilation time by 60%. https://code.dawg.eu/reducing-vibed-turnaround-time-part-2-less-compiling.html -Martin There's no mention of your name as author in the

Re: Blog Post - Reducing vibe.d turnaround time (Part 2 Less Compiling)

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/18/2014 1:08 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/18/2014 08:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Should say in the title that you reduced build times by 60%. Otherwise, have to read all the way to the end to find it! It's a great statistic, and having it in the title people will have more reason

Re: O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference CFP expires December 2nd

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/13/2014 4:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We've just announced the first-ever O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference and want to make sure it's on your radar. It's happening at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, March 17-19, 2015. Especially those who gave presentations at

Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu on the D Programming Language

2014-10-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdoIJaPooI On reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2iws85/interview_with_andrei_alexandrescu_on_the_d/

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/11/2014 3:59 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: You can use different mechanisms in different OSs. There is no need to force a runtime to be OS-independent. If that were the case, then we should close the concurrent GC pull request now. I still don't see why it can't use a special argument to

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/11/2014 4:23 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: It basically defines a bunch of environment variables and run the binary. This is a super common practice in posix systems. We are not inventing anything here. I don't know how windows or other OSs deal with defining environment variables in a

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/10/2014 12:37 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: It was my impression that phobos in a shared library would soon become the default on linux, i.e. any application would use it by default. In that case, all supported GCs might actually have to be included in the shared library. The options to

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/10/2014 5:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for what they've been created for, it's foolish :-) Because using environment variables to tune program X will also affect programs A-Z.

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