Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/22/2012 7:51 PM, bearophile wrote: Andrei says that some new languages suffer because they have a poor implementation, because creating the base for a language is a lot of work. Today this is issue is much less of a problem, new languages are implemented on the JavaVM, Using the JVM

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-23 Thread MattCodr
On Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 00:39:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-6-The-D-Episode-with-Walter-Bright-and-Andrei-Alexandrescu You want 1 million users? Simple... is just Andrei start saying that he use D on FB and you will get it 10

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 23-02-2012 07:51, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/22/2012 7:51 PM, bearophile wrote: Andrei says that some new languages suffer because they have a poor implementation, because creating the base for a language is a lot of work. Today this is issue is much less of a problem, new languages are

Re: D forums now live!

2012-02-23 Thread James Miller
On 23 February 2012 04:26, Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote: On 21/02/2012 00:53, James Miller wrote: snip There are a potentially infinite number of possible configurations, and sites need to be aimed at the lowest-common denominator. Doesn't look right with an enlarged font size?

Re: Inheriting purity DDJ blog by Walter on reddit

2012-02-23 Thread deadalnix
Le 23/02/2012 18:27, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q2pmd/inheriting_purity_in_the_d_programming_language/ Andrei I'm still not convinced by const (this can lead to very confusing cases), but for everything else, this is great job.

Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon

2012-02-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/23/2012 5:33 AM, James Miller wrote: Question: Can I save enough money by September to pay for return flights from NZ and accomodation for a week? Answer: Probably not, but I can try! On the plus side, Astoria isn't an expensive place to stay at, and in September there won't be the

Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon

2012-02-23 Thread Paul D. Anderson
On Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 19:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/23/2012 5:33 AM, James Miller wrote: Question: Can I save enough money by September to pay for return flights from NZ and accomodation for a week? Answer: Probably not, but I can try! On the plus side, Astoria isn't an

Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon

2012-02-23 Thread James Miller
I just realised that I'll be 21 by then too, I wont have to be annoyed by not being able to drink. James Miller -- On The Go

Re: Inheriting purity DDJ blog by Walter on reddit

2012-02-23 Thread Jason House
On Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 19:48:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Le 23/02/2012 18:27, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q2pmd/inheriting_purity_in_the_d_programming_language/ Andrei I'm still not convinced by const (this can lead to very confusing

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 24-02-2012 05:06, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: I still cannot fathom how the Scala guys thought using the JVM was a good idea. It gave them a good garbage collector (an area that has held D's performance back for years), a large library via