Re: ODBC Library?

2015-10-31 Thread Charles via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 10 November 2014 at 20:37:51 UTC, Charles wrote: For anyone in the future: I needed odbc32.lib, so I created the following odbc32.def and used implib. Thanks me. My computer I was using recently died, and ran into this problem again when getting everything set up. Is there any

Re: Failed 'dub run' with 'Failed to invoke the compiler dmd'

2015-10-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 05:33:08 UTC, Timoses wrote: On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 04:00:18 UTC, Timoses wrote: Linking... ld: library not found for -levent clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) --- errorlevel 1 dmd failed with exit code 1.

Re: Failed 'dub run' with 'Failed to invoke the compiler dmd'

2015-10-31 Thread Timoses via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 06:13:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DMD uses different linkers depending on the platform. For the compiler, -L means 'pass this command to the linker.' In this case, that just also happens to be -L, which is understood by ld (the system linker) as the flag to set

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread rumbu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 15:42:00 UTC, tcak wrote: On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 14:37:23 UTC, rumbu wrote: On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: I'm writing a talk for codemesh on the use of D in finance. Any other thoughts? For finance stuff - missing a

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 15:41 +, tcak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 14:37:23 UTC, rumbu wrote: > > On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > > > I'm writing a talk for codemesh on the use of D in finance. > > > > > > Any other

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote: My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any modern language, not implemented as a library. I agree

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote: My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any modern language, not implemented as a library. "must be builtin in any modern language" – which modern languages actually have decimals as a built-in type, and what is your

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread rumbu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: I'm writing a talk for codemesh on the use of D in finance. Any other thoughts? For finance stuff - missing a floating point decimal data type. Things like 1.1 + 2.2 = 3.3003

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread tcak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 14:37:23 UTC, rumbu wrote: On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: I'm writing a talk for codemesh on the use of D in finance. Any other thoughts? For finance stuff - missing a floating point decimal data type. Things like 1.1 + 2.2 =

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 23:07:46 UTC, rumbu wrote: On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 20:55:33 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote: My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any modern language, not implemented as a

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 10/31/2015 09:06 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > As far as I am aware only IBM Big Iron (aka mainframes, aka z-Series) has > hardware decimal floating point these days. (Even though 1970s and 1980s > microprocessors had the feature.) Although still years away from

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 14:37:23 UTC, rumbu wrote: On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:35:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: I'm writing a talk for codemesh on the use of D in finance. Any other thoughts? For finance stuff - missing a floating point decimal data type. Things like 1.1 + 2.2 =

Re: good reasons not to use D?

2015-10-31 Thread rumbu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 20:55:33 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote: My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any modern language, not implemented as a library. "must be builtin in any modern language" – which modern