Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2016-01-21 11:01, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 05:14:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread burjui via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/ I also prefer to work at night, mainly because of silence. A simple test: listen to a song in your headphones at day, then

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 05:14:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/21/2016 5:06 AM, burjui wrote: Recently I almost stopped listening to music (even ambient) while I write code, because it turns out I do less mistakes and overlook things not so often, when I code in silence. It makes coding less entertaining, but more productive. The trick is to turn the

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with expression on their faces "What is C? We've only heard about

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread epsilomish via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 21:38:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote: Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote: Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the technical part of the talk is small, there is the thing about lexical D

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 21/01/16 12:22 AM, epsilomish wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread epsilomish via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/ Thanks for the link,

Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-19 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/