Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 04:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote: Search this forum or HN for Paulo and Oberon, you'll find plenty of posts like this, where he lists all of them: :) https://forum.dlang.org/post/mioycakymbdpzryme...@forum.dlang.org Oops, I forgot that Go was garbage collected.

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 04:19:22 UTC, Tony wrote: On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 02:17:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 02:02:52 UTC, Tony wrote: Have their been other languages - besides D - that compiled to object code and used a garbage collector? You can use a GC wit

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 02:17:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 02:02:52 UTC, Tony wrote: Have their been other languages - besides D - that compiled to object code and used a garbage collector? You can use a GC with C++ and you can compile Java to native code ahead o

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 02:02:52 UTC, Tony wrote: Have their been other languages - besides D - that compiled to object code and used a garbage collector? You can use a GC with C++ and you can compile Java to native code ahead of time. The distinctions aren't really that sharp, it just de

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
"I've got a systems level project I want to play around with, however GC is not a deal breaker for me. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302719 Oberon-2 has had some versions that used a garbage collector. Have their been other languages - besides D - that compiled to object code and u

[OT]: companies

2018-06-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 20:59:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, June 14, 2018 16:04:32 Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: On 06/14/2018 05:01 AM, AnotherTorUser wrote: > If all such people stopped working for such companies, what > do you think the economic impa

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 20:35:23 UTC, baz wrote: I asked on IRC yesterday and actually tHose memcpy are not the memcpy we use to copy wide chunks, apparently it's rather for an internal druntime thing, i.e cpy type to type so likely always aligned. Correct! D already has features like `

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 20:04:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2018 12:30 PM, Jordan Wilson wrote: I remember reading your answer on how you generate income. You said you bought high and sold low. I suffered several losses before I realised your particular sense of humor. My superpo

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, June 14, 2018 16:04:32 Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On 06/14/2018 05:01 AM, AnotherTorUser wrote: > > If all such people stopped working for such companies, what do you think > > the economic impact would be? > > What do you think is the social impact if they d

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread baz via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 17:27:27 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 06:46:43 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: I had a little fun today kicking the crap out of C's memcpy with a D implementation. https://github.com/JinShil/memcpyD Request for help: I don't have a Linux sy

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/14/2018 05:01 AM, AnotherTorUser wrote: sorry. but what world do you live in? Note this part of what I said: >> If I worked in such an organization that tracked its employees >> activities *outside the workplace* That part is KEY, but it sounds like you an errExit have chosen to ignor

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2018 12:30 PM, Jordan Wilson wrote: I remember reading your answer on how you generate income. You said you bought high and sold low. I suffered several losses before I realised your particular sense of humor. My superpower is control over the stock market. Immediately after I buy a s

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Jordan Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 11:39:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2018 4:19 AM, jmh530 wrote: I found myself getting in trouble when I was texting and being sarcastic. I always add the little winky face now. People don't get mad anymore, but instead just say I'm not funny. Good trade-off

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 06:46:43 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: I had a little fun today kicking the crap out of C's memcpy with a D implementation. https://github.com/JinShil/memcpyD Request for help: I don't have a Linux system running on real hardware at this time, nor do I have a wide ra

DCD 0.9.9 & D-Scanner 0.5.7 & dparse 0.8.7 available

2018-06-14 Thread baz@dlang-community via Digitalmars-d-announce
Mostly Released due to the transition for "body" but contains more bug fixes or enhancements. In dparse `tok!"body"` is not a thing anymore and people will have to test for the `.text` property. See: https://github.com/dlang-community/libdparse/releases/tag/v0.8.7 https://github.com/dlang-co

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 13:42:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Well, for me, it wasn't attacks. There have been quite a few people in this community who were rude, insulting, and IMO, that is not worth moderation. In fact some of them have even came around and become quite good D cont

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Uknown via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 07:54:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 14:34:28 Uknown via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Looks very promising. One question though, why not use std.datetime.stopwatch.benchmark? I think it has some protection against optimizing compilers (

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/18 9:31 AM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 15/06/2018 1:22 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: It's really the impersonation that is the problem, not the anonymity. If you just would stick to one persona, and especially not impersonate people who actually post on this forum, you would not have

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 15/06/2018 1:22 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: It's really the impersonation that is the problem, not the anonymity. If you just would stick to one persona, and especially not impersonate people who actually post on this forum, you would not have to use Tor at all, and the forum moderators

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/13/18 10:32 PM, errExit wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 17:04:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am part of the D community. I haven't discriminated against anyone. I don't know what a Tor user is. I've just searched: So Tor is an old idea of mine, implemented. :o) Ali Tor is our last

D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Greatsam4sure via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 05:31:18 UTC, Bugsy wrote: On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 04:11:37 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: they have bugs and features D only has features that's because in D, bugs are actually features. The advantages of D are numerous. It a language design to make a newb

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread rumbu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 10:18:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/14/2018 2:53 AM, Unsafe wrote: "D only has advantages" ?? What is the point of such a post? Read the parent post. This was in fact the problem: it was not obvious that there is a parent post.

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Diego via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 06:46:43 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: I had a little fun today kicking the crap out of C's memcpy with a D implementation. https://github.com/JinShil/memcpyD Request for help: I don't have a Linux system running on real hardware at this time, nor do I have a wide ra

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2018 4:19 AM, jmh530 wrote: I found myself getting in trouble when I was texting and being sarcastic. I always add the little winky face now. People don't get mad anymore, but instead just say I'm not funny. Good trade-off. My sense of humor tends to the droll side, and people who don'

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 11:19:37 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 10:18:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Evidently my brand of humor got lost in translation. I grovel and beg for forgiveness, and will appropriately flagellate myself with a wet noodle. I found myself getting

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 10:18:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Evidently my brand of humor got lost in translation. I grovel and beg for forgiveness, and will appropriately flagellate myself with a wet noodle. I found myself getting in trouble when I was texting and being sarcastic. I alw

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2018 2:53 AM, Unsafe wrote: "D only has advantages" ?? What is the point of such a post? Read the parent post. To me, it just comes across as being DPRK like propaganda. Evidently my brand of humor got lost in translation. I grovel and beg for forgiveness, and will appropriately

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Unsafe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 22:38:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306761 "D only has advantages" ?? What is the point of such a post? To me, it just comes across as being DPRK like propaganda. Perhaps it should mention 'sunrises'...the more the merry'r.

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread errExit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 07:19:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: I'm with you on a lot of that, however, this part troubles me: "This becomes problematic for those of us who work in 'certain organisations', that insist on tracking it's employees online activities (even outside of

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread AnotherTorUser via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 07:19:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: I'm with you on a lot of that, however, this part troubles me: "This becomes problematic for those of us who work in 'certain organisations', that insist on tracking it's employees online activities (even outside of

Re: D only has Advantages

2018-06-14 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 22:38:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306761 I think that if you want to advertise a single comment on Reddit or similar sites, the general forum would be more appopriate place for that. But that's just my opinion.

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread YetAnotherTorUser via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 07:45:15 UTC, Joakim wrote: Tor is merely one tool used to route around those building centralized systems on top of the internet. The real solution is that as more and more decentralized tech does well, like git or cryptocurrencies, to get rid of these obsolete c

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 14:34:28 Uknown via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Looks very promising. One question though, why not use > std.datetime.stopwatch.benchmark? I think it has some protection > against optimizing compilers (I may be wrong though). Also, LDC > has attributes to control op

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 02:32:51 UTC, errExit wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 17:04:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am part of the D community. I haven't discriminated against anyone. I don't know what a Tor user is. I've just searched: So Tor is an old idea of mine, implemented. :o)

Re: Encouraging preliminary results implementing memcpy in D

2018-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/14/2018 02:34 AM, errExit wrote: The D Foundation now subjects all users having an ip originating from a tor exit node, to having their posts moderated (but by whom, when, how, criteria ?? etc). Literally millions of people could, and probably would, be using that exit node. So that