Re: Inochi2D - Realtime 2D Animation written in D

2022-09-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
That's very cool! I did these back in the day using D. Glad to see nice 2D animation tools in D! https://vimeo.com/3065068 https://vimeo.com/9703263 https://vimeo.com/3116117 --bb On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:30 AM Luna via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: >

Re: Skia library for D, porting from SkiaSharp API.

2021-12-08 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 6:40 PM Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 6 December 2021 at 09:08:20 UTC, zoujiaqing wrote: > > SkiaD is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for D based on Mono's > > SkiaSharp. Which in turn is "based on

Re: New library: argparse, for parsing CLI arguments

2021-10-13 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 6:15 PM Andrey Zherikov via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 00:35:11 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM Andrey Zherikov via > > Digitalmars-d-announce <

Re: New library: argparse, for parsing CLI arguments

2021-10-13 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM Andrey Zherikov via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 19:26:49 UTC, Andrei > Alexandrescu wrote: > > Cool! > > > > One note - gflags (https://opensource.google/projects/gflags) > > allows

Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

2020-06-20 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Whoa! Page 23 -- a wild Bill Baxter appears! That was unexpected. :-D --bb On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:00 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 6/18/2020 1:53 PM, tastyminerals wrote: > > On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16

Re: GSOC 2020 projects

2020-02-24 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The full list is here and there are lots of them: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=2 I think gamefromscratch.com just pulled out a short list of ones that were game-related there. --bb On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:05 AM rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

2019-05-09 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:00 AM rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 09/05/2019 9:19 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:15 AM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce > >

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

2019-05-08 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:15 AM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:13:35 UTC, Ethan wrote: > > > > > > Good news everyone! A Youtube stream will be arriving after the > > lunch break. > > > > Cheers for your

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Gotta laugh at Ruby being listed as "Underrated", though. --bb On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Of possible interest: > > > https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html >

Re: A facebook group for D programmers

2018-09-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Here's the link : https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org . ;-) On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:31 PM Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > And there is a Facebook group D Programming Language already. > > On Sun, 2018-09-16 at 16:36 -0700, Steven

Re: Follow @dlangconf and use #dconf on twitter

2018-05-01 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
They're calling it "dconf" as short for the "Digital Health and Well-being Conference". Really?! Why wouldn't you use something less generic like "dhealth2018"? They're tweeting from the handle @dconf2018. I guess you should go ahead and sign up for the @dconf2019 and on accounts now. Maybe that

Re: DWT API Documentation now on dpldocs.info

2018-03-07 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The logo in the corner - http://dwt.dpldocs.info/d-logo.png -- is a 404 btw. On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Bill Baxter <wbax...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cool! I used to love using DWT back in the day. > > Yeh the Eclipse ones look like they were written by someone trying very >

Re: DWT API Documentation now on dpldocs.info

2018-03-07 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Cool! I used to love using DWT back in the day. Yeh the Eclipse ones look like they were written by someone trying very hard to make you think you were using a native app on some platform with a horrible UI from the 90s. --bb On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thursday, March 01, 2018 13:24:29 Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys > > right away after being told about them are a self-se

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of people who apparently have way too much time on their hands. Which also suggests they would likely also have more free time to go chase down and fix breaks in

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

2018-02-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Oh, forgot . :-) On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Bill Baxter <wbax...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? > --bb > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce > <digitalmars-d-announce@puremag

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

2018-02-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? --bb On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > http://nwcpp.org/ > > I plan to be there; a bunch of Seattle area D folks come regularly. We > hear the

Re: BLAS implementation for D

2017-04-15 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:18 PM, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 16:31:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote: > > Not a lawyer, but I think if you just port it to another language it is a >> derived work in GPL and the ported

Re: DIP1000: Scoped Pointers

2016-08-10 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
This bit seems odd: T func(T* t) { return t; // ok } Is there an implicit conversion from T* to T? On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 11/08/2016 8:35 AM, Dicebot wrote: > >> The first DIP has just

Re: D-Man culture

2016-06-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Whew! I thought this was going to be a scathing critique of some lurking anti-feministic culture in the D world. Glad to see it's just about some cute D-shaped characters! On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: >

Re: Google Summer of Code

2016-04-22 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Well done! Congrats to you all! --bb On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:43 PM, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I am pleased to announce that the D Foundation has been awarded 4 slots > for the 2016 Google Summer of Code. > >

Re: Computer Vision Library in D

2016-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 20/04/2016 7:46 PM, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 06:14:58 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: >> >>> I was thinking std.math.linalg kinda

Re: Dconf gets a new logo

2016-03-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The other one was classy, but this one is energetic and fun. +1. --bb On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Many thanks to https://github.com/aG0aep6G who contributed the DConf 2016 > logo (the Berlin

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
It doesn't require a system change to run unsigned stuff on the Mac, it just requires knowing the trick: open by ctrl-clicking on the icon and choosing "Open" from the pop-up menu. If you open it that way then it will ask you if you really really want to open it, and there you can say yes. If

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you set up what's called a Hangout On Air then anyone can join in and you can have it recorded to YouTube as well. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2553119?hl=en On Nov 18, 2015 10:25 PM, "Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday,

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
To be fair, wasn't the movie talking about dead baseball player ghosts coming? For people to take that example and apply it to other endeavors in life is a bit ridiculous. But maybe I'm misremembering. Saw it a long time ago. On Sep 11, 2015 4:00 AM, "Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce" <

Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

2015-09-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:10 AM, GrandAxe via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 15:14:12 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote: > >> Dne 2.9.2015 v 16:41 GrandAxe via Digitalmars-d-announce napsal(a): >> >>> This is to inform the D

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:06 PM, welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: to fully focus on pushing D forward. insert dick joke here That would be pushing ===D forward.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-24 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation,

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:28 PM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 at 22:08:50 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 08:48:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.068.0. http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.068.0/ This release comes with many

Re: D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Fyi - Someone is posting similar stuff to the G+ D community under the name Mike Rotch. The posts are links to serious talks about D. But that account name lends a pretty unprofessional air to it. --bb On Jun 24, 2015 4:00 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 6/9/15 1:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Awesome. Thanks for doing the streaming! --bb On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 5/27/15 1:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can

Re: Found on Reddit: It's time for D to own up

2015-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 22:41:38 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Anyone mentioned Automatic Reference Counting yet? Works pretty well for ObjC from what I've seen. Here

Re: Found on Reddit: It's time for D to own up

2015-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Anyone mentioned Automatic Reference Counting yet? Works pretty well for ObjC from what I've seen. On Apr 21, 2015 11:27 AM, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33dccx/its_time_for_d_to_own_up/ Ali

Re: quick-and-dirty minimalistic LISP engine

2015-02-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:30 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:50:29 -0800, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: If you weren't deliberately making a joke, you might want to google milf. no jokes, it's

Re: quick-and-dirty minimalistic LISP engine

2015-02-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you weren't deliberately making a joke, you might want to google milf. And if you were... Hmm interesting sense of humor you have there. On Feb 18, 2015 11:40 PM, via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 22:37:34 UTC, ketmar

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
What will be the return value of the following function? int y() { int d = 31, baz = 5; baz--; d /= baz; return d; } Oh, the irony! Asking people to prove they're human by making them to complete a task that is usually done by machines. :-) --bb On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:26 AM,

Re: DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the YouTube interface, click on the pencil icon (Info Settings) and there's a place to set what frame to use as a thumbnail there. --bb On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 7/25/14, 9:03 AM, David

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynamic languages is code like this if(cond) var = hello world; else var = 42; The fact that an if statement

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: ML is the language of the future ;-) Yeh, it hasn't really caught on in the first 40 years since it was invented, but I'm sure it's about to explode any day now. :-) --bb

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-08-02 Thread Bill Baxter
Well put, you two. Exactly the same point I was trying to make, only to get accused of spouting baloney. ---bb On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 17:16:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2013-08-02 15:44:13

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Baxter
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 7/30/13 2:48 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@**erdani.orgseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Baxter
on the speed improvements! When I was using D a lot, the compile times for heavily templated stuff were definitely starting to get to me. --bb On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: On 7/31/2013 11:13 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: That's more analogous to something

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I just want to point out that being so much people getting this wrong (and even fighting to convince other

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-27 Thread Bill Baxter
Certainly you're technically correct about the 75% improvement in speed, but the units of speed for program execution is a little weird and unintuitive (Hz). I've not run across anyone who says my program got faster! It went from 0.05 Hz to 0.08 Hz!. I think that's why people find it a little

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-25 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Joakim joa...@airpost.net wrote: On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 20:58:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: I wonder what the response would be to injecting some money and commercialism into the D ecosystem. Given how D's whole success stems from its

Re: Scott Meyers coming to Seattle to do presentation July 17

2013-06-22 Thread Bill Baxter
+1 I'll probably be there. --bb Sent from my Android. On Jun 21, 2013 1:31 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: The abstract isn't available yet, but who cares. I presume it will be about C++. Scott's shows are not to be missed. It'll be July 17th at 7:00 PM at Microsoft in

Re: SPY

2013-06-13 Thread Bill Baxter
Why do those things pay dividends? --bb On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: On 6/13/2013 12:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:10:06 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 6/13/2013 11:25 AM, Steven

Re: SPY

2013-06-13 Thread Bill Baxter
This was on NPR just this morning: http://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/188979111/how-to-invest-in-real-estate-without-being-a-landlord --bb On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.comwrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:48:12 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 3: Distributed Caching Compiler for D by Robert Schadek

2013-05-13 Thread Bill Baxter
Is there a way to find all the reddit links to these (not a frequent reddit user, but I'm curious to look over the discussions each vid gets when I have the chance). --bb On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Watch, discuss, vote up!

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 3: Distributed Caching Compiler for D by Robert Schadek

2013-05-13 Thread Bill Baxter
Excellent. Thanks! On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013 10:01:03 -0700 Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to find all the reddit links to these (not a frequent reddit user, but I'm curious

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread Bill Baxter
Here's the instruction about how to verify the account to get youtube to let you exceed 15mins: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=71673 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Dicebot m.stras...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 15:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu

Re: DConf 2013 Opening Keynote by Walter Bright: video and slides available

2013-05-08 Thread Bill Baxter
Sound seems fine to me. If you can't stand listening to YouTube videos because of the audio quality... you might be an audiophile. And the vid quality is great. Love the multiple camera angles. --bb On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:

Re: DConf 2013 canceled; hoping for DConf 2014

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Baxter
Oh, well, everyone can just stay at home enjoying their Gmail Blue[1], hunting for treasure on Maps [2], and the never-ending reading of Best YouTube nominees [3]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4JwPb99qU [2] https://maps.google.com/?t=8 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGeMGqVKD6A On

Re: February 20, 2013—Component Programming in D—Walter Bright - slides video

2013-02-22 Thread Bill Baxter
+1! Also might I suggest making NWCPP accounts on Facebook/Twitter/Google+ from which you can push out these sorts of announcements? The great thing about having the meeting announcements on those is that people can really easily reshare them to all their followers, thereby expanding the reach of

Re: February 20, 2013—Component Programming in D—Walter Bright - slides video

2013-02-22 Thread Bill Baxter
Whoops, thought I was replying to the message from Lloyd that I saw in my inbox earlier today. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: +1! Also might I suggest making NWCPP accounts on Facebook/Twitter/Google+ from which you can push out these sorts

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-18 Thread Bill Baxter
Must be a problem with mobile Chrome then. Probably not specific to the new change log handling. In chrome that entire content pane has a tendency to disappear. --bb Sent from my Android. On Feb 17, 2013 11:20 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/17/2013 5:40 PM, Bill Baxter

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Bill Baxter
The new change log also seems inaccessible from mobile. (At least it seems to freak out chrome on android). --bb Sent from my Android. On Feb 17, 2013 5:25 PM, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote: On 2/17/2013 5:07 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/18/13, Walter Bright

Re: Contract programming in D discussed on reddit

2012-03-02 Thread Bill Baxter
Ha, I thought this was going to be about employment opportunities. --bb On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/**programming/comments/qevy0/**

Re: D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

2012-03-01 Thread Bill Baxter
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.comwrote: Some integer semantics might be hard too. ubyte is ok, but byte is different because 127+1 isn't as simple as x 0xff I'll have to think about that. Again, it surely *can* be done, but I'd rather than an error

Re: dmd 1.073 and 2.058 release

2012-02-14 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 20:47:27 Walter Bright wrote: * Allow 1.userproperty syntax Where is this odd-sounding beast documented? And what is UFCS? --bb

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Baxter
Chrome and Firefox both have several different auto updating versions. For Chrome there's stable, beta, dev channel, and canary (which is basically a nightly build). So there are lots of opportunities for bugs to be found by developers before they go live in the stable release channel. --bb Sent

Re: GoingNative 2012

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: On 11/25/2011 4:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll give a talk at GoingNative 2012

Re: Concurrency and parallelism panel

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Baxter
When Herb gave a talk at NWCPP not long ago about C++0x, Walter's questions and comments were priceless. Herb asks would you expect this [messy-looking but seemingly optimal c++ loop] to be faster, or this [nice clean looking c++0x code that you might think has lots of overhead]. Walter raises

D is part of Google Summer of Code 2011! x3!!

2011-04-26 Thread Bill Baxter
Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Cristi Cobzarenco, Dmitry Olshansky, and David Nadlinger for getting accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2011 to work on projects in D! * http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/cristicbz/36001 *

Re: DWT Windows supports D2

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Baxter
That's great! So that means kntroh wrote a Phobos-only implementation of all the support classes? --bb On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote: I was planning to wait with this announcement but here it is anyway: The Windows port of DWT now supports D2, a huge thanks

Re: Digital Mars has been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-18 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: We have just got word from Google - Digital Mars has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2011. Great! Good for us (from a proud new Googler... :-) --bb Thanks to

Re: D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Baxter
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote: Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.977.1296083661.4748.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... Mercurial gives every revision two numbers: Is that the kind of thing you're wanting? Yea, and that's pretty

Re: D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

2011-01-26 Thread Bill Baxter
Mercurial gives every revision two numbers: changeset: This field has the format of a number, followed by a colon, followed by a hexadecimal (or hex) string. These are identifiers for the changeset. The hex string is a unique identifier: the same hex string will always refer to the same

Re: blip 0.5

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Baxter
Nice work! Is it for D2 or D1? Or both? --bb On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Fawzi Mohamed fa...@gmx.ch wrote: I am happy to announce blip 0.5 http://dsource.org/projects/blip why 0.5? because it works for me, but hopefully it will work for others too, and 1.0 will be a release

Re: dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

2010-05-21 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote: superdan Wrote: == Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schvei...@yahoo.com)'s article superdan Wrote: == Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schvei...@yahoo.com)'s article Is there some other reason to use

Re: dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

2010-05-21 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, superdan su...@dan.org wrote: void foo(int[int] x) {    x[5] = 5; } void main() {    int[int] x;    foo(x);    assert(x[5] == 5); // fails } -Steve wrote a long post but it got lost. shit. bottom line dats a bug in dmd or phobos. Unfortunately it

Re: dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Baxter
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: My vision, in very brief, is to foster a federation of independent containers abiding to identical names for similar functionality. Then a few concept checks (a la std.range checks) can easily express

Re: I rewrite std.time for Phobos

2010-05-13 Thread Bill Baxter
(Note that SHOO means code where he says cord. Code and cord are both コード in Japanese, so it's easy for Japanese folks to get the two words mixed up.) --bb 2010/5/13 SHOO zan77...@nifty.com: SHOO さんは書きました: I make std.time module for Phobos. This module provides Time, Span, Clock, StopWatch

Re: SciD: the humble beginning

2009-12-15 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Lutger lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com wrote: Chad J wrote: dsimcha wrote: ...  The other option is to make sure everything is loosely coupled to the GUI lib so it can be easily swapped for another one.  The downside is that this has some tradeoffs in terms of

Re: SciD: the humble beginning

2009-12-15 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Simen kjaeraas simen.kja...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: Biggest problem with OpenGL is that the quality is crap for 2D stuff, and quality really matters when you're trying to do something like draw 2000 little markers on a plot

Re: dmd 1.053 and 2.037 release

2009-12-12 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Don nos...@nospam.com wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Don wrote: Yeah. Actually the CPU problem is an accepts-invalid bug. It worked on my Pentium M, but it shouldn't have. The problem is what DMD does to the uninitialized assignments. float x; gets changed

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-13 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Tomas Lindquist Olsen tomas.l.ol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Tomas Lindquist Olsen tomas.l.ol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Bill Baxter wbax

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Looks like Bill Baxter is giving a presentation on D Nov. 18! http://www.nwcpp.org/ Yep, that's

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Baxter
2009/11/10 Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:27:20 +0300, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: kprintf (a printf variant) in XoMB is a nice example imo. It accepts format as a template parameter, doing all the checks at compile-time (and more). http://github.com

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Baxter
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad pub...@kyllingen.nospamnet wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 11/10/09 01:27, Bill Baxter wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com  wrote: Looks like Bill Baxter is giving a presentation on D Nov. 18

Re: Metaprogramming in D : Some Real-world Examples

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Looks like Bill Baxter is giving a presentation on D Nov. 18! http://www.nwcpp.org/ Yep, that's right, and I'd be quite grateful to you smart folks here if you could share your meta-programming favorites with me

Re: dmd 1.051 and 2.036 release

2009-11-06 Thread Bill Baxter
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Sorry, still no Mac OSX 10.6 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.051.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.036.zip

Re: bugzilla 424 - Unexpected OPTLINK Termination - solved!

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Baxter
This is the too many fixups bug?! If so that's great news. So is it any slower now with things not in ASM? --bb On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Optlink is written entirely in rather impenetrable assembler code, and is resistant to understanding

Re: std2.xml and std2.encoding for D 1.0 available at D source

2009-08-12 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Michael Rynnmichaelr...@optushome.com.au wrote: I have made a little beginning attempt at understanding the phobos xml modules.  For a warm up exercise, I took the std.xml and std.encoding from phobos 2, and made them into std2.xml and std2.encoding in the

Re: Descent with compile-time debug for testing

2009-06-10 Thread Bill Baxter
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Steve Tealesteve.te...@britseyeview.com wrote: Trass3r Wrote: Ary Borenszweig schrieb: That's ddbg working wrong, not Descent. :-P   Ah, damn so no way this gets fixed. Debugging D is a pain :( So is ddbg dead? Author hasn't been heard from round here

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:29:39 +0400, Qian Xu quian...@stud.tu-ilmenau.de wrote: BCS wrote: I'm planning on taking a crack at a Serialization template library and I'm looking for feed back. My thinking so far is up on

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2009 21:44:49 +0400, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:29:39 +0400, Qian Xu quian...@stud.tu-ilmenau.de

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:23:58 +0400, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Denis Koroskin 2kor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 May 2009 21:44:49 +0400, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Blaze 2.0

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Baxter
This is another good one: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=bellman+blaze+finger+entwined On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Mason Green mason.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Denis Koroskin wrote: http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/ :) LOL...  I'll have save this one for later. :-p

Re: Blaze 2.0

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Bill Baxter wbax...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Bill

Re: Open source dmd on Reddit!

2009-03-12 Thread Bill Baxter
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Nick Sabalausky a...@a.a wrote: Nick Sabalausky a...@a.a wrote in message news:gpc4m6$30n...@digitalmars.com... Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:gpc2ik$2t8...@digitalmars.com... Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's one thing that's kind

Re: Cristian Vlasceanu and D for the .NET platform

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Baxter
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.comwrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/838lf/cristian_vlasceanu_and_d_for_the_net_platform/ I'm hoping this works out, so I can use D in my new job. :-) --bb

Re: GUI Design (DWT) with XML

2009-03-08 Thread Bill Baxter
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:47 AM, TomD t_dem...@nospam.web.de wrote: Hi, I have uploaded xwt to http://demmer.kilu.de/Software/xwt_20090305.zip This is an extensible library that parses the XML description of a GUI. It is based on DWT, the SWT port to D, and Tango. In theory, it should run

Re: dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Baxter
I can confirm that this indeed fixes the issues with the infinite loop in compilation for me. And it does so without creating any blahblah__initZ errors too. This is the first compiler since 1.037 that can actually compile my source. Not sure about the speed though. I haven't measured the

Re: Compiler Construction seminar, Sep 20-22

2009-03-01 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: In Astoria, Oregon, on September 20-22 I'll be hosting a Compiler Construction seminar along with Cristian Vlasceanu. http://www.astoriaseminar.com/compiler-construction.html It'll be a two day intensive course

Re: QtD 0.1 is out!

2009-02-21 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Eldar Insafutdinov e.insafutdi...@gmail.com wrote: We found out that while compiling qtd with dmd 1.038 and newer compiler hangs. ldc is also affected by this issue. which means that this is frontend bug. testcase is big of course. What are the possible

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