Re: GCs in the news

2014-07-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 16:56:56 UTC, Vic wrote: On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 13:29:18 UTC, John wrote: If D came without GC, it would have replaced C++ a long time ago! Agree +1000. If GC is so good, why not make it an option, have a base lib w/o GC. If I want GC, I got me JRE. It

Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
Perhaps I've too had much caffeine today but I've had an idea which might give a fairly quick win on the GC speed situation. It's a simple idea at heart so it's very possible/likely that this is a well known idea that has already been discarded but anyway here goes. I got the idea after think

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
Here's a code snippet which mopefully makes things a bit clearer: /** * In this example the variable foo can be statically analysed as safe to go on the stack. * The new instance of Bar allocated in funcLevelB is only referred to by foo. foo can * be considered a root 'scoped' variable and the

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis Of course my proposal uses the techique of escape analysis as part of its methodology, but the essence of the idea is to greatly cut down on the work that the GC has to do on each sweep when dealing with objects that have been found

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 20:20:29 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 16:29:45 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I got the idea after thinking that it should be fairly simple for the compiler to detect straightforward cases of when a variable can be declared as going on the st

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 11:02:12 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 16:29:45 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote... Congratulations on inventing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management and "Region inference" in particular. Ah yes - it's identical isn't it - I don

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 09:45:38 UTC, Mike wrote: On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 07:03:29 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 20:20:29 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 16:29:45 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I got the idea after thinking that it should

Re: Possible quick win in GC?

2014-09-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 12:02:40 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 11:36:51 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: So, (does anyone know) has this technique been discarded for D or is it 'just' a matter of the resources to do it? From the literature on this topic I remember attempts

Re: Fwd: Interfacing with C++

2014-11-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 November 2014 at 18:24:12 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d wrote: It was recommended that I discuss this on this list rather than d.learn... (I didn't think I'd graduate out of d.learn *that* quickly...) -- Forwarded message -- Hello. I really really need to

Re: Fwd: Interfacing with C++

2014-11-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 November 2014 at 20:32:34 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Monday, 3 November 2014 at 18:24:12 UTC, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d wrote: It was recommended that I discuss this on this list rather than d.learn... (I didn't think I'd graduate out of d.learn *that* quickly...) -

Re: Fwd: Interfacing with C++

2014-11-05 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 12:39:16 UTC, albatroz wrote: On Monday, 3 November 2014 at 20:32:34 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: You might find my project Smidgen (https://github.com/alynch4047/smidgen) useful, It's not finished but you might consider extending it rather than starting elsewhere.

Re: Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

2014-11-21 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
Just like the OOP introductory books that still insist in talking about Cars and Vehicles, Managers and Employees, Animals and Bees, always using inheritance as code reuse. Barely talking about is-a and has-a, and all the issues about fragile base classes. -- Paulo Hear, hear. One of t

Re: GBAiD (GameBoy Advance in D)

2014-12-25 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 09:22:48 UTC, JN wrote: On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 01:59:48 UTC, Meta wrote: On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 00:05:06 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Hi, Not mine, just sharing: reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2qaxvs/gbaid_a_gameboy_advance_

Re: D and Nim

2015-01-05 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:01:51 UTC, bearophile wrote: I don't remember having such bug in my life. Perhaps you are very good, but a language like D must be designed for more common programmers like Kenji Hara, Andrei Alexandrescu, or Raymond Hettinger. Bye, bearophile

Re: Calypso and the future of D

2015-01-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 00:24:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think it's important that we enable Calypso (https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso) and related tooling that interfaces D with other languages, notably C++. A key topic in 2015 for D is playing well with C++. A good C++ in

Re: Calypso and the future of D

2015-01-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 10:53:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/23/2015 2:42 AM, Abdulhaq wrote: Calypso sounds fantastic but seems very tied to one compiler - we all need to know if yourself and Walter are content with that, for instance. Yes, it's tied to clang++. It may not even work

Re: Calypso and the future of D

2015-01-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 11:26:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/23/2015 3:22 AM, Abdulhaq wrote: On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 10:53:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes, it's tied to clang++. It may not even work on all the platforms we support. But that's no matter for now. When you say

SurveyMonkey for D users OS

2014-05-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
I've created a SurveyMonkey survey to gather stats on D users OS usage. It only takes a few seconds to answer: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3BJRWP8 We can leave it running for a week or so, I'll keep you updated on results. Abdulhaq

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS

2014-05-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 17:24:51 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I've created a SurveyMonkey survey to gather stats on D users OS usage. It only takes a few seconds to answer: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3BJRWP8 We can leave it running for a week or so, I'll keep you updated on results. Abdulhaq

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS

2014-05-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 18:20:21 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: Abdulhaq wrote: I've created a SurveyMonkey survey to gather stats on D users OS usage. It only takes a few seconds to answer: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3BJRWP8 We can leave it running for a week or so, I'll keep you updated on

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS

2014-05-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 18:56:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 17:39:00 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I won't skew the results by spilling the beans just yet. Do you think, users will migrate to another OS just for this survey if they see the results? No I don't think that. What ca

SurveyMonkey for D users OS - Results

2014-05-31 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
There's been 100 votes and the results are: Linux 64 bits: 53 Linux 32 bits: 4 Windows 64 bits:27 Windows 32 bits: 3 Mac: 7 Other: 6: "ArchLinux" "Android" "Centos 6" "MAC OSX, LINUX 64, Windows 64, FreeBSD 64"

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS - Results

2014-05-31 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:37:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: There's been 100 votes and the results are: Linux 64 bits: 53 Linux 32 bits: 4 Windows 64 bits:27 Windows 32 bits: 3 Mac: 7 Other: 6: "ArchLinux" "Android" "Cento

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS - Results

2014-05-31 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:52:46 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 1/06/2014 1:45 a.m., Abdulhaq wrote: On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:37:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: There's been 100 votes and the results are: Linux 64 bits: 53 Linux 32 bits: 4 Windows 64 bits:27 Windows 32 bits:

Re: A Perspective on D from game industry

2014-06-15 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1 The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I think it's important we understand what people think of D. I can confirm this sentiment is fairly

Re: A Perspective on D from game industry

2014-06-15 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 13:19:12 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 12:30 +, Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] learning the Android API - after all, JDK8 + tooling is bearable now. On the other hand Android API is Apache Harmony which is Java 6

Re: A Perspective on D from game industry

2014-06-15 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 20:10:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2014 9:20 AM, Xinok wrote: Given that he lives in Italy, it's safe to assume that English is not his first language. But rather than consider what he has to say or dispute his arguments, you completely dismissed his point of

Re: Need Feedback for a new book - "D Cookbook"

2014-07-11 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
Hi Paushali I'm interested in reviewing the book, you can contact me at alynch4...@gmail.com. I'd put the review on Amazon.

Re: [Semi OT] The programming language wars

2015-03-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:27:51 UTC, Joakim wrote: would suffice. When you said "I think rodent-based UIs will go the way of the dinosaur," you seemed to be talking about more than just programmers. I'm still waiting for The Last One (from Feb 1981) to reach fruition: http://www.

Re: [Semi OT] The programming language wars

2015-03-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 18:49:01 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 21:17:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:27:51 UTC, Joakim wrote: would suffice. When you said "I think rodent-based UIs will go the way of the dinosaur," you seemed to be talking about mo

Re: DIP76: Autodecode Should Not Throw

2015-04-07 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 03:17:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP76 The DIP lists the benefits but does not mention any cons. A con that I can see is that it is violating the 'fail fast' principle. By silently replacing data the developer will be presented with a proba

Re: I came up with a new logo for the D language

2015-04-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 22:02:01 UTC, Barry Smith wrote: It's simple, but clean. Somewhat similar to the old one. Hope you like it. http://s2.postimg.org/m6qcfemhl/dlang.png Email me at barry.of.sm...@gmail.com if you want the SVG version. This idea improves on the current one in that i

Re: I came up with a new logo for the D language

2015-04-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 08:26:32 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 08:14:05 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 22:02:01 UTC, Barry Smith wrote: It's simple, but clean. Somewhat similar to the old one. Hope you like it. http://s2.postimg.org/m6qcfemhl/dl

Re: I came up with a new logo for the D language

2015-04-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 10:31:06 UTC, ixid wrote: On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 07:12:29 UTC, deadalnix wrote: It does not matter if one knows this is planets or not (these aren't planet technically, but phobos and deimos, mars's moons). What does matter is that the logo is recognized and a

Re: I came up with a new logo for the D language

2015-04-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 15:12:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 12:49:19 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I'd suggest a fresh look be introduced when the ref counting and GC work has been done, Believe it or not i'm not opposed to this. and personally I'd suggest just a simpl

Re: Why I'm Excited about D

2015-04-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 16:43:00 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Thinking about it, this is probably the right thing to do, but the range interface makes it non obvious and confusing. Some time ago there was a long thread about formalising the interface for ranges, i.e. a clear and precise definitio

Re: Today's programming challenge - How's your Range-Fu ?

2015-04-19 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
MiOn Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 02:20:01 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 18/04/15 21:40, Walter Bright wrote: I'm not arguing against the existence of the Unicode standard, I'm saying I can't figure any justification for standardizing different encodings of the same thing. A lot of areas in

Re: Interrogative: What's a good blog title?

2015-04-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 22:54:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I don't have a blog, and was thinking of starting one. E.g. the article on tracing allocations needs a home! I was wondering if you have any good ideas of what's a good blog name. I'd avoid branding my blog with my longish na

Re: How does D improve on C++17?

2015-04-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 21:56:56 UTC, Meta wrote: On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 20:56:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/27/15 2:13 AM, Idan Arye wrote: On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 01:28:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now on the front page of Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/

Re: My statements related to terminating my SAoC relationship

2018-10-16 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 21:26:52 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote: I have done two mistakes: I underestimated the scope of the project and overestimated my capabilities. This caused a chain reaction, which in turn made the first milestone unreachable. You've done the right thing by facing the s

Re: Am I reading this wrong, or is std.getopt *really* this stupid?

2018-03-25 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 21:24:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That'd be great. I'm thinking something like an option std.getopt.config.commandLineOrder. Must be first option specified right after arguments. Sounds good? I thought this was a clever joke, but everyone is taking it se

Re: Am I reading this wrong, or is std.getopt *really* this stupid?

2018-03-25 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 25 March 2018 at 14:46:23 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 21:24:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That'd be great. I'm thinking something like an option std.getopt.config.commandLineOrder. Must be first option specified right after arguments. Sounds good? I th

Re: /^(?:([^:\/?#]+):)?(?:\/\/((?:(([^:@]*)(?::([^:@]*))?)?@)?([^:\/?#]*)(?::(\d*))?))?((((?:[^?#\/]*\/)*)([^?#]*))(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?)/, [your code here]

2018-04-06 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 6 April 2018 at 13:10:07 UTC, jason wrote: what is this? It's a perl program that converts D code into APL

Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-27 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 23:27:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: But making predictions is a tricky thing and mostly of not much value. I'm really surprised to hear you say this - so much money in the financial services is poured into making predictions, lots of them and as fast as possible.

[OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 23:42:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: For me, I think that managing money is about choosing to expose your capital intelligently to the market, balancing the risk of loss against the prospective gain and considering this in a portfolio sense. Prediction doesn't really

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 12:43:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: It's tough when dealing with genuine - Knightian uncertainty or even more radical versions. When one doesn't even know the structure of the problem then maximising expected utility doesn't work. One can look at capacities - Cho

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 19:55:56 UTC, bpr wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 15:36:43 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I think that I no longer fall into the category of developer that D is after. D is targeting pedal-to-the-metal requirements, and I don't need that. TBH I think 99% of developers do

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 21:27:12 UTC, bpr wrote: I hear you. You're looking (roughly) for a better Java/Go/Scala, and I'm looking for a better C/C++/Rust, at least for what I work on now. I don't think D can be both right now, and that the language which can satisfy both of us doesn't e

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 14:45:19 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: I forgot the link... here it is: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710 An interesting article. I found that Dennet's Consciousness Explained, which is presumably de

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-08-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 22:55:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Dpp doesn't work with STL yet. I asked Atila how long to #include vector and he thought maybe two months of full-time work. That's not out of the question in time, but we have too much else to do right now. I'm not sure if recen

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 09:51:43 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Good luck getting W&A to agree to it, especially when there is yet another "critical D opportunity" on the table ;) No. They have power for as long as we the community say that they do. We are at the point where they need a c

Re: D is dead

2018-08-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 10:41:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: D does have a problem in general of having a lot of great features that work really well in isolation but don't necessarily work well in concert (and it doesn't help that some features have really never been properly finishe

Re: Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

2018-09-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 08:52:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Honestly, I was horrified to find out that emojis were even in Unicode. It makes no sense whatsover. Emojis are supposed to be sequences of characters that can be interepreted as images. Treating them like Unicode symbo

Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-25 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Sometimes the database (SQLite) SQLite was designed initially to be single local process, one connection. You should get much better results with postgres though of course it has some maintenance overhead (mainly inst

Re: Looking for a job in USA

2017-11-18 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 08:59:53 UTC, Satoshi wrote: On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 01:31:09 UTC, Indigo wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 17:32:50 UTC, Satoshi wrote: Hi, as the title says, I'm looking for a job opportunity in the USA (H1B visa sponsorship required). I'm e

Re: Which language futures make D overcompicated?

2018-02-09 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 07:54:49 UTC, Suliman wrote: I like D, but sometimes it's look like for me too complicated. Go have a lot of fans even it not simple, but primitive. But some D futures make it very hard to learning. Small list by me: 1. mixins 2. inout 3. too many attributes like:

Re: Dub, Cargo, Go, Gradle, Maven

2018-02-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 10:06:43 UTC, welkam wrote: ADG? Google doesnt find anything relevant Acyclic directed graph

Re: Being Positive

2018-02-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:36:35 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 08:08:28 UTC, bauss wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: Personally, I found that youtube video (Life is better with Rust's community automation - YouTub

Re: State of D: The survey is killing man, way too much

2018-03-04 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 19:46:38 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote: On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 17:42:25 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: On 3/3/18 8:08 AM, 0x wrote: The D survey is killing maan! Those are lots of questions in there If I ever get hold of the people behind it... Is it a c

Re: D course material

2018-03-13 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 21:12:16 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: On 3/13/18 2:08 PM, aberba wrote: On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 17:20:57 UTC, Meta wrote: On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:39:24 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: [...] Honestly I'd recommend TDPL. It's got a lot of good real-world ex

Re: Rename 'D' to 'D++'

2017-03-10 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 March 2017 at 11:25:11 UTC, Traktor TOni wrote: I think the name is just misleading, the D developers should at least be honest with themselves. well the tractor derives from the shire horse and Toni comes from Antonius so you should be honest too and rename yourself to Shirehor

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
I really wish people would stop complaining about other languages having the same features as D without giving credit. It is impossible to figure out exactly where ideas from features come from, but most features predate even C++ if being first is the main point. Hear, hear, is it so unli

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:11:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: As a norwegian I can't make up my mind as to whether I should write "color" or "colour". I suspect it will be taken as some kind of political statement. Hey, I am neutral! I use "color" in source code and "colour" in writi

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
D is really unique in the sense that it's open enough for people not to feel that they have to role their own. D also has enough features to satisfy many different users, although - and this is often forgotten - you don't _have_ to use them all. People like Go and Rust, because it tells them ex

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

2015-06-16 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
First off I would stress that architecture and process are more important than which of those 3 languages you choose, i.e. good testing (I prefer test driven), continuous integration, and a solid architecture that you are confident will provide the reliability, correctness and uptime that you

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
maybe one of the brain surgeons from africa (comming by boat) or some muslim (turkish, arabic or otherwise) got him at after 16:00? I know, don't feed the trolls, but: Your primary problem is not the immigrants.

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 12:14:05 UTC, berlin wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 11:51:30 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: maybe one of the brain surgeons from africa (comming by boat) or some muslim (turkish, arabic or otherwise) got him at after 16:00? I know, don't feed the trolls, but: Your p

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 13:26:57 UTC, Etienne wrote: The likely explanation for people being out of touch for a few days is not muderous muslim immigrants. When you start to think that it is, you need look at the state of your mind, not the immigrants. Was he even serious? Sounded iron

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 13:55:14 UTC, Etienne wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 13:48:50 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 13:26:57 UTC, Etienne wrote: The likely explanation for people being out of touch for a few days is not muderous muslim immigrants. When you star

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 16:16:09 UTC, berlin wrote: well, read something to your world situation. take it from an old kufr that dos not want to live under islamic law: http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ http://www.barenakedislam.com/ http://schnellmann.org/Under

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-18 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 10:36:16 UTC, Joakim wrote: Why can't they just admit that the core architecture of the web is horrific, ie an antiquated document format based on some shitty 50-year old IBM markup language (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language), a

Re: We simply must implement this for D to stay competitive

2015-06-21 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 22:38:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/rollbear/basicpp I had a Video Genie in my youth too, I loved it :-)

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:09:31 UTC, Joakim wrote: As for a GC, why would webasm need to provide one? I'd think the languages would just be able to compile their own GC to webasm, which seems low-level enough. From the docs: Even before GC support is added to WebAssembly, it is po

Re: Looking for GC intensive D programs

2015-06-30 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 June 2015 at 01:41:53 UTC, rsw0x wrote: Does anyone know of any GC intensive D programs that can preferably be ran with little to no setup? I remember Maxime said that the Higgs compiler was gc intensive https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-12 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 03:19:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 02/11/2016 04:54 PM, w0rp wrote: His article is way too long. It seems like an article about whining about how people whine too much. It's metawhine! :) These meta whines get on my nerves, everything was much better in

Re: Clojure vs. D in creating immutable lists that are almost the same.

2016-02-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 22:31:28 UTC, Brother Bill wrote: That is, how to create one-off changes to an immutable data structure, while keeping the original immutable, as well as the one-off change, and maintain good performance. Clojure uses bit-partitioned hash tries. I recommend

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-24 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
I have to say I agree that, for better or for worse, this thread alone demonstrates an occasional aggressiveness that puts me off, never mind women who are, generally speaking, less likely to weather the tone of voice often used here. Karabuta seems to be a non-native English speaker and got l

Re: Some questions on latest work

2016-04-27 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 17:57:55 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: If I get up on a stage with a grin splitting my face and talk about how great D is, I'm considered a hero. But if I criticize D for it's flaws, then I'm a troll or someone who is just ranting. Anybody has the right to criticize

Re: Some questions on latest work

2016-05-04 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 02:42:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 19:05:03 UTC, ShamShime Azelkraft wrote: On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 21:49:33 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: I suggest you smoke some DMT (and have a breakthrough), or have a few Ayahuasca sessions. If that doesn't

Re: Follow-up post explaining research rationale

2016-05-10 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 19:09:35 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote: Hi all, As I mentioned on the other thread where I asked about D syntax, I'm a social scientist about to launch some studies of the effects of PL syntax on learnability, motivation to pursue programming, and differential gender effects

Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

2016-05-14 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 03:19:51 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote: I've been going through a lot of Unicode, icon fonts, and the Noun Project, looking for clean and concise representations for program logic. One of the ideas I've been working with is to leverage Unicode arrows. In most cases it's tri

Re: D mentioned and criticized

2016-05-18 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:02:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:00:53 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Nim is much more interesting as a D alternative, in the sense that it is a. I give up, kept pressing ENTER while typing a message. Please finish, I have to know w

Re: D mentioned and criticized

2016-05-19 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 13:53:46 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 21:45:16 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:02:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 12:00:53 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Nim is much more interesting as a D alte

Re: Anyone working on updated Qt bindings?

2015-10-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:58:01 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I know a lot of people wish they had new bindings for Qt, so I was going to give it a go soon. Is anyone currently working on such a thing? I'd rather help someone than compete with them. I got quite far for Qt4 with https://gi

C++ compiler vs D compiler

2015-10-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
Perhaps the answer to this is obvious, but what's harder to write from scratch - a C++ compiler or a D compiler? :-) We know Walter wrote a C++ compiler single handedly, does anyone else recall the C++ Grandmaster qualification, the free course where participants get to write a complete C++ co

Re: RFC in Comparison between Rust, D and Go

2015-11-10 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 21:01:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/09/2015 09:13 AM, Nordlöw wrote: Yet another shallow language comparison that needs to be corrected: https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-future-in-replacement-of-C-between-D-Go-and-Rust-And-Why/answ

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-12-23 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 23 December 2015 at 10:06:20 UTC, Suliman wrote: For example I do not know JS. And only C++. How would look like my web-app with WASM? First have a look at this, qt-emscripten: http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emscripten-qt/wiki/Demos WASM will allow progr

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-01-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 17:14:55 UTC, Piotrek wrote: The goal of this post is to measure the craziness of an idea to embed a database engine into the D language ;) I think about a database engine which would meet my three main requirements: - integrated with D (ranges) - ACID -

Re: C++17

2016-01-27 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 18:09:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 15:14:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote: And ironically, in this very thread, a C++ programmer has called D a toy language. D is incomplete, unfinished, unspecified and unstable. C++14 is an ISO s

Re: Taking D to GDC Europe - let's make this tight

2016-07-12 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 11:27:18 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote: http://schedule.gdceurope.com/session/d-using-an-emerging-language-in-quantum-break My proposal for a talk has been accepted, and I'll be in Cologne next month presenting to industry peers. Congratulations and it sounds good, how