Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-12 Thread bearophile
dsimcha: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated. http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/ I have given a first quick read to your

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-12 Thread Sean Kelly
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-12 Thread dsimcha
On 4/12/2011 12:51 PM, bearophile wrote: It might really be pure but not marked as such because the discipline required to recursively mark it and all functions it calls pure doesn’t scale much better than any other form of discipline in programming. If an important module of Phobos as yours

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Don
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/10/2011 06:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Alix Pexton
On 11/04/2011 09:09, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/10/2011 06:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/11/2011 03:09 AM, Don wrote: For sure, but it was not the only item. The recommendation is use 'that' vs 'which' was an even more offensive item. I found that rule to be very helpful to my writing. Andrei

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/11/2011 03:26 AM, Alix Pexton wrote: I have to agree with Don, burn the book, it is wholly responsible for the decline in creativity in English writing (imho). The book is for technical writing, and I didn't find absorbing it has hurt in any way whatever creativity I may have. Andrei

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Alix Pexton
On 11/04/2011 12:56, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/11/2011 03:26 AM, Alix Pexton wrote: I have to agree with Don, burn the book, it is wholly responsible for the decline in creativity in English writing (imho). The book is for technical writing, and I didn't find absorbing it has hurt in

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/11/2011 07:31 AM, Alix Pexton wrote: On 11/04/2011 12:56, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/11/2011 03:26 AM, Alix Pexton wrote: I have to agree with Don, burn the book, it is wholly responsible for the decline in creativity in English writing (imho). The book is for technical writing,

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/11/2011 03:09 AM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/10/2011 06:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/10/11 1:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [ . . . ] I see. I go by Bugs in Writing (awesome book) and Strunk/White. They both recommend the comma, no ifs and buts (hard for me to get used to because in Romanian that comma is _never_

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Russel Winder
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [ . . . ] I see. I go by Bugs in Writing (awesome book) and Strunk/White. They both recommend the comma, no ifs and buts (hard for me to get used to because in Romanian that comma is _never_ correct). The bibles in this situation

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:inr5cq$m2e$1...@digitalmars.com... On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Don
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread dsimcha
On 4/10/2011 7:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Don
dsimcha wrote: On 4/10/2011 7:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 00:27, schrieb Torarin: 2011/4/8 dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/10/2011 06:29 PM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread dsimcha
On 4/10/2011 8:28 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: Am 10.04.2011 00:27, schrieb Torarin: 2011/4/8 dsimchadsim...@yahoo.com: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread dsimcha
On 4/10/2011 8:28 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote: After all the language bikeshedding I'll add something on-topic to this thread ;) I agree with Torarin: It's a very good article, I like how further explanations are linked and I also wouldn't mind some more examples. Can you please give some

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
On 4/7/2011 7:01 PM, dsimcha wrote: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated. http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/ Made a few revisions,

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/9/11 3:03 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/7/2011 7:01 PM, dsimcha wrote: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/9/11 5:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/9/11 3:03 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/7/2011 7:01 PM, dsimcha wrote: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/09/2011 03:03 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/7/2011 7:01 PM, dsimcha wrote: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Torarin
2011/4/8 dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com: Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest.  It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated. http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/ A very good article!

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where?

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever be? After parallelism. Andrei

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever be? After parallelism. Andrei Actually, I specifically remember

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever be? After parallelism.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a Wikipedia page dedicated entirely to the topic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma Above all, it's your article, and one great thing about that is you

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/10/11, dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a Wikipedia page dedicated entirely to the topic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma Above all, it's your

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever be? After parallelism.

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcae...@gmail.com)'s article Am 10.04.2011 05:05, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: On 4/10/11, dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Jonathan M Davis
Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where? Where could it ever be? After

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 06:04, schrieb Jonathan M Davis: Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei Where?

[Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-07 Thread dsimcha
Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, but feedback would be appreciated. http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/7/