Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-30 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 23:25:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: The whole industry's moved over keeping server-side code out of the HTML So the whole industry has moved away from php? Sure templating is used so mixing php and html is as common, but if I'm not mistaken ? is still ? used a

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/29/12 4:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Should have looked first, it's on reddit already. Please vote up :o).

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread George Fekete
On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 22:35:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/29/12 4:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Should have looked first, it's on reddit already. Please vote up :o).

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 22:34:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I wish I’d convince a serious hacker to bring things to the point where ?d writeln(Hello, world!); ? could be inserted in a web page. That's very easy. About 100 lines of simple string manipulation makes it happen:

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:jg4hhb$kll$1...@digitalmars.com... http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ we tried hard to make off-the-shelf tools work at the scale and quality we need

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/29/2012 2:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Nice, I enjoyed reading it.

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Caligo
2012/1/29 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Andrei Learn how to learn? Could you elaborate, please? How did you learn how to learn?

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/29/2012 6:16 PM, Caligo wrote: Learn how to learn? Could you elaborate, please? How did you learn how to learn? I can't speak for Andrei, but I discovered after 4 years of university that I had become much better at learning new things. I attribute it to becoming more efficient at

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread bearophile
Walter: On 1/29/2012 6:16 PM, Caligo wrote: Learn how to learn? Could you elaborate, please? How did you learn how to learn? I can't speak for Andrei, but I discovered after 4 years of university that I had become much better at learning new things. It's meta-learning (second order

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 05:17:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The difficult part is integrating with Apache. Eh, it's not so bad. Make a .htaccess file: .htaccess: === Action dhp-script /cgi-bin/dhp AddHandler dhp-script .dhp === Drop in your files. hello.dhp === ?d

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
I can't speak for Andrei, but I discovered after 4 years of university that I had become much better at learning new things. I believe that learning how to learn better is probably the most important thing to learn at the University. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. All you need to learn