Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 17:23:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Good one, worth sharing. As a D user I'd probably love to see more technical details but for a wider public it is a solid match. The technical details are rather boring. Good old OOP and I made use of D's structs and some other nice fea

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 15:47:29 UTC, Meta wrote: It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functional programming hype. That was the reason w

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 14:21:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/ [Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code)< Is that true? For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its site isn't down). Bye,

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 19:04:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote: It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functio

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote: It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functional programming hype. One thing that caught my eye: "I also recommend

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 13:53:24 UTC, Chris wrote: Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the "usability" of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Meta
It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functional programming hype. One thing that caught my eye: "I also recommend the book The D Programming La

Re: Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread bearophile
Chris: http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/ [Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code)< Is that true? For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its site isn't down). Bye, bearophile

Article about "Applied D"

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the "usability" of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about how "practical" it is. Here it is, warts and all: ht