On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:33:29 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
Brilliant, DConf comes to the UK, I can get to it…
except…
it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the
Business Design Centre. :-(
Programming languages are unimportant anyway.
On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 at 06:57:28 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 at 05:18:45 UTC, aliak wrote:
Quote from article:
"The languages with the strongest positive coefficients -
meaning associated with a greater number of defect fixes are
C++, C, and Objective-C, also
On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 at 05:18:45 UTC, aliak wrote:
Quote from article:
"The languages with the strongest positive coefficients -
meaning associated with a greater number of defect fixes are
C++, C, and Objective-C, also PHP and Python. On the other
hand, Clojure, Haskell, Ruby and
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0
If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and
quite funny :o).
Now as to the talk, as you could imagine, it touches on another
language as well...
Andrei
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:12:48 +, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:08:50 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
>> Is it possible to declare a function whose name is a CTFE computed
>> string?
>
> Yes, if you do it with a string mixin.
And more simply, you can declare a function with a
On 1/14/2019 10:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
But Ddoc has macros ;)
Indeed it does. But the macros cannot be used to create syntax, and there is no
token concatenation. Macros cannot define other macros.
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:22:32 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:08:50 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0
If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:08:50 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0
If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and
quite funny :o).
Now as to the talk, as you could
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:08:50 UTC, Ben Jones wrote:
Is it possible to declare a function whose name is a CTFE
computed string?
Yes, if you do it with a string mixin.
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0
If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and
quite funny :o).
Now as to the talk, as you could imagine, it touches on another
language as well...
Andrei
A
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 08:38:39PM +, Guillaume Piolat via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
[...]
> Other people often lack interest because of real or perceived template
> bloat, and it's critical.
>
> - I think it's important to emphasize CTFE over template
> instantiations because (per
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0
If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and
quite funny :o).
Now as to the talk, as you could imagine, it touches on another
language as well...
Andrei
On Sunday, 13 January 2019 at 21:40:43 UTC, Murilo wrote:
On Monday, 31 December 2018 at 17:42:46 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
[...]
It would be a good idea to publish that on the facebook group
for users of D. There you would be able to spread the
information fast. It is called Programming in
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
On 2019-01-14 15:42, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
That's a bad example :) The clear answer is mysql-native, which is what
vibe.d recommends.
Exactly, and I don't need five minutes for that. Five seconds is enough :)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On 2019-01-14 08:50, Walter Bright wrote:
Interesting cites, which provide a basis for why I've opposed AST
macros, and why Ddoc and unittest are builtin (and a few other things).
But Ddoc has macros ;)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:57:36PM +, Adam D. Ruppe via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 14:56:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> > Only a small sliver of programming involves anything where "overhead
> > of a runtime" is an issue. I hope you intend this comment as
> >
On 1/14/19 10:57 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 14:56:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Only a small sliver of programming involves anything where "overhead
of a runtime" is an issue. I hope you intend this comment as
pertaining to Better C usage.
Real D is the true better C.
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 14:56:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Only a small sliver of programming involves anything where
"overhead of a runtime" is an issue. I hope you intend this
comment as pertaining to Better C usage.
Real D is the true better C. These improvements can improve in
various
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 03:58:37 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
Because design by introspection allows us to "assemble programs
atomically", perhaps high-level language features like classes
and interfaces can become obsolete, and the language itself can
be reduced simpler primitives that
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 10:06:48 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
When something like an object system is made part of the
language (or at the very least, the standard library), it
becomes a focal point [2] that the community can
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
Scheme is probably the language that takes this idea of a
minimal "core language" with powerful metaprogramming
facilities the furthest, and the result is a fragmented
ecosystem that makes writing portable, non-trivial programs
On 1/14/19 5:18 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 07:50:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/13/2019 9:31 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
Scheme is probably the language that takes this idea of a minimal
"core language" with powerful metaprogramming facilities the
furthest, and
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:07:35 UTC, aberba wrote:
Do people really use Rust in production beyond the safety die
hards (of course Mozilla and few uses here and there, mostly C
guys...lowlevel purists)? Its such a weird,complicated and
academic lang... doubt it'll ever be mainstream like
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 10:06:48 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
When something like an object system is made part of the
language (or at the very least, the standard library), it
becomes a focal point [2] that the community can
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
[1] http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
This part always feels familiar to me in D (just replace Lisp
with D and Haskell with say Rust):
Answer: The Lisp Curse kicks in. Every second or third serious
Lisp
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 07:50:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/13/2019 9:31 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
Scheme is probably the language that takes this idea of a
minimal "core language" with powerful metaprogramming
facilities the furthest, and the result is a fragmented
ecosystem that
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
When something like an object system is made part of the
language (or at the very least, the standard library), it
becomes a focal point [2] that the community can coordinate
around. Due to the diverse, distributed nature of any
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