Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-01-28 17:13, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: On 28-01-2012 16:51, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 17:40:50 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: IMO the D community should be willing to look at other languages for ideas and inspiration. Too late. As C++ proves, legacy is

Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-29 Thread Daniel Murphy
Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote in message news:jg3ila$1qcb$1...@digitalmars.com... __ is not enforced. You can create your own identifiers string with __. Yes, but if you do, it's _your_ problem when the compiler starts using that identifier and breaks your code.

Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-29 Thread Daniel Murphy
bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote in message news:jg3du9$1i37$1...@digitalmars.com... I have not written it because I don't feel a significant need for this syntax sugar. So if you like it, I suggest to write it yourself :-) Recently I have already done the mistake of asking for

A tutorial on D templates: updates

2012-01-29 Thread Philippe Sigaud
Hello, I posted there a few weeks ago about a tutorial on D templates I put in github: https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial/blob/master/dtemplates.pdf Since then, I received numerous mails, issues, advices and thanks. Thank to you all! Following the ideas found in TDPL, I

Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Andrei

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: A tutorial on D templates: updates

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/29/12 2:44 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: Hello, I posted there a few weeks ago about a tutorial on D templates I put in github: https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial/blob/master/dtemplates.pdf Since then, I received numerous mails, issues, advices and thanks. Thank to you

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: A tutorial on D templates: updates

2012-01-29 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:16, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Great! Just give me the green light when you feel this is reddit-publishable. That should be OK now, thanks.

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