Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-28 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-announce
IMHO, implementing a EP-to-D source code converter was probably more risky than simply extending an existing Pascal Compiler in that case. Risc is in the eye of the beholder ;-) Indeed :) But that doesn't mean I'm completely wrong. I also enjoy A LOT implementing minimalistic transpilers

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 10:00:48 UTC, user1234 wrote: On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 09:41:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Like everybody here, I hope that Bastiaan efforts will pay in the long term, but I'm not as optimistic as many here that this will end as a success story, as I'm not sure

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 09:41:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Where I disagree with Bastiaan is on the rejection of the Pascal language itself, as there are other open-source Pascal compilers (GNU Pascal in EP mode) which could have been used and enhanced to match the company requirements,

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-23 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 09:41:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Man, proggit can be savage with the criticism. Every Nim/Rust and the one Ada programmer have come out of the woodwork to make sure you know their language supports nested functions. You've seemingly got to be an expert in every

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-23 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d-announce
Man, proggit can be savage with the criticism. Every Nim/Rust and the one Ada programmer have come out of the woodwork to make sure you know their language supports nested functions. You've seemingly got to be an expert in every current language to write a comparison article that suggests D

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-23 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-23 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-21 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 June 2018 at 02:45:06 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog:

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-21 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/ Reddit:

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-21 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal.

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:13:41PM +, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: [...] > > >

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog:

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/ Reddit:

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/ Reddit:

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 01:21:30PM +, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that > his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code > base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In

How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how