Re: DConf Day 1 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-07-02 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 20:39:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/27/2014 12:53 PM, Dicebot wrote: http://youtu.be/TNvUIWFy02I Ack, need to work on my posture :-( I just got a chance to watch this, and one thing that I found more unsettling than your posture was your assertion that

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:46:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I don't know, but the only language I've used with no static types that made me comfortable was Common Lisp. That was a long time ago, but I think it was the ease of manually testing the code in a REPL that did it. Obviously today

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:52:53 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:12:10 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: And no, it doesn't matter how the current frontend implements it, because you can argue next to any decisions this way. When issues like this come up the spec is

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 23:07:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically