It strikes me that the core question here may be one of the
division of labour. The person best suited to signing up for an
ongoing commitment to maintain a whole load of different
libraries across platforms/settings will only by the chancest
fluke be the person who is suited to and enjoys wri
On Friday, 7 November 2014 at 05:33:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
And you suppose I have nothing better to do than to compile
multiple binaries for over a dozen projects every time they put
out a new release or, as in the case of Bgfx, update their
repo? My time is rather more valuable to me than
since you didn't get an answer.
https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ProcessesAndThreading
you can turn off threads and processes to aid debugging:
https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ProcessesAndThreading
StartServers 1
ServerLimit 1
With this configuration, only one process will be s
Also it is why I suggested that it could be policed.
But the D community is too small for that atm.
which means that it is easy to have a concept of relatively
trusted vs unknown contributors. of course if someone trusted
gets hacked or socially engineered then that is a risk, but on
the o
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 14:57:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 12:05:10 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 09:16:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 23:19:47 UTC, Mason McGill wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 11:28:21 UTC, Chris wrote:
Maybe it's t
More complex creatures may take longer to mature than simpler
ones. At the age of five, an infant is a much less impressive
creature than a dog of the same age. (And one might sometimes
feel the same way also when it reaches the age of 15 ;) Social
institutions have organic traits too, so th
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 00:21:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:12:07PM +, Laeeth Isharc via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
- better reference documentation. I don't believe I lack the
ability generally to figure things out, but the dlan
On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 11:33:05 UTC, matovitch wrote:
On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 11:18:43 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Native efficiency combined with expressiveness and ease of
use, as the front page says. That's too general-purpose to
just go build some specialized app like docker, but i
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 14:33:02 UTC, TJB wrote:
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 13:10:46 UTC, Daniel Davidson
wrote:
Data storage for high volume would also be nice. A D
implementation of HDF5, via wrappers or otherwise, would be a
very useful project. Imagine how much more friendly the AP
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 22:41:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
What's the reason Kenji's pull isn't merged yet? As I see it,
it does
not introduce any problematic areas, but streamlines
multidimensional
indexing notation in a nice way that fits in well with the rest
of the
language. I, for one,
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 11:59:11 UTC, aldanor wrote:
@Laeeth
As a matter of fact, I've been working on HDF5 bindings for D
as well -- I'm done with the binding/wrapping part so far (with
automatic throwing of D exceptions whenever errors occur in the
C library, and other niceties) and
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 00:14:11 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote:
On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:14:15 UTC, TJB wrote:
Walter,
I see that you will be discussing "High Performance Code Using
D" at the 2014 DConf. This will be a very welcomed topic for
many of us. I am a Finance Professor. I
Hi.
Sorry if this is a bit long, but perhaps it may be interesting to
one or two.
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 22:00:36 UTC, Daniel Davidson
wrote:
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 19:25:51 UTC, aldanor wrote:
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 17:28:39 UTC, Daniel Davidson
wrote:
I don't see
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 22:46:57 UTC, aldanor wrote:
On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 22:36:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
FYI, Kenji's merge has since been merged. So now the stage is
set for
somebody to step up and write a nice multidimensional array
implementation.
One im
On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:19:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
groupBy is an important primitive for relational algebra
queries on data. Soon to follow are operators such as
aggregate() which is a sort of reduce() but operating on ranges
of ranges. With those in tow, a query such as
It would be interesting if we could make it possible to do a
translation between D and SQL, similar to how LINQ is
implemented internally, but preferably have it done at
compile-time rather than at runtime.
Have you seen Hibernated?
https://github.com/buggins/hibernated
Informative is fine. Basing decisions on metrics unleavened by
contextual judgement isn't going to work well.
It isn't just one metric. I've personally seen it multiple
times with various metrics, and regularly read in the news
about counterproductive results obtained by using metrics
absen
the question of why that is the way it is, it's because we
actually
thought of all that shit when designing the time library :) I
was a big
proponent of not using the same type to mean duration and
timestamp, and
only allowing sane operations. Jonathan was the same way.
That separation is o
Hi all, I've started redesigning dlang.org AGAIN (yea, I
know...).
Appreciate the work you and others are doing on this. Web pages
are so fiddly but so important for controlling the image one
presents to the world.
I don't have so much to say about the general case, as it is not
my field.
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 20:28:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/23/15 12:19 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
In most languages group by yields a tuple of {group key, group
values}.
Interesting, thanks. Looks like we're at a net loss of
information with our current approach.
@quickfu
The problem with RedBlackTree is that it's cache-unfriendly due
to the
memory allocation and per-node pointers. One reason quicksort
performs
so well is because it works in-place, and the partition
operation
accesses elements bilinearly (i.e., two linear traversals over
the same
stretch of me
The author talks about C++ performance but D can match it whilst
bringing scripting language style programmer productivity, and
arguably higher quality code (because you can understand the code
base as a coherent whole). Integration with C++ libraries is
really the last missing piece, and it
When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted
with a long list of forums, most of which fall into the
categories: not relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a
On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
When one checks out the D community / forums, one is
confronted with a
long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories:
not
relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 00:29:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/25/15 2:41 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
When one checks out the D community / forums, one is
confronted with a
long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories:
not
relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
Th
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 01:55:32 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 26/01/2015 12:42 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
When one checks out the D community / forums, one is
confronted
On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 21:19:59 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:56:04 +, AndyC wrote:
Its handy, yes, until you hit one of its many limitations,
then what
will you do?
i didn't come into any limitations yet. my scripts and other
software was
able to process any zips i tr
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:17:29 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:09:17 +, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Is it worth creating a higher tier within code.dlang.org of
libraries
considered to be of high quality that may have a semi-official
stamp? When you know your way around, you can
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:36:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is n
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 03:56:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Hi.
This thread turned to topics of higher importance than mere
cosmetics.
Few miscellaneous thoughts.
Why not create a bugzilla section for website and forum so it is
easier to report glitches and enhancement requests
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 09:08:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2015-01-26 08:35, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I think we should just import jquery into the dlang.org repo.
External
dependencies always end up in these kinds of ugly situations.
The advantage of using a CDN is that
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 16:40:38 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 00:37:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Excuse the creator's bias :)
I agree that Jacob's description makes things more clear, added!
I posted some thoughts on web docs writeup of C+= interface here.
If "group by" in other languages refers to the latter function,
then
that means "groupBy" is poorly-named and we need to come up
with a
better name for it. Changing it to return tuples and what-not
seems to
be beating around the bush to me.
T
T: you are good with algorithms. In many ap
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 19:50:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 1/26/15 10:17 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
>But OTOH, if *this* is what it takes to contribute a new
>module to
>Phobos, then
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 18:53:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 21:50:53 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
And beyond slower execution speed of Java, the memory bloat
makes a big difference given how cloud pricing works (its
peanuts to get a machine with a gig of r
"5. The kind that a tool such as 'dfix', can automate. For
example, let's say dfix is included with the compiler package.
Now you get an error, saying: "Error: `@nogc` is no longer
accepted, but can be automatically replaced with `nogc`. Run dfix
on this file? (y/n)"... or whatever is deemed the s
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
I meant lost in terms of extra processing time and memory
consumption in order to achieve the fairly common use case of a
groupby pivot table or pandas style (ie what you get if you sort
the data by group and then run D groupby)
If you first sort the data,
As far as I know, the current groupBy docs explain quite
clearly what it
does. If you find it still inadequate or unclear, please file
bug against it so that we can look into improving the docs.
Read the docs now - they are perfect within the context of the
style of documentation (and these d
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 20:55:14 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 20:19:09 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Does Rust have the productivity of D? And it doesn't have the
maturity, as I understand it.
This brings up something that's been bugging me. D has a pitch
for users of
" If Java consumes 15% more power doing it, does
it matter on a PC? Most people don't dare. Does it matter for
small-scale server environments? Maybe not. Does it matter
when you deploy Hadoop on a 10,000 node cluster, and the
holistic inefficiency (multiple things running concurrently)
goes t
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 20:08:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 18:41:09 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Why not create a bugzilla section for website and forum so it
is easier to report glitches and enhancement requests in a way
that you will quickly see without d
There was also this one from 1998 that was very small
http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076641/learn-java/an-introduction-to-the-java-ring.html
Java has some history running on small devices.
Cheers,
uri
Indeed, and I remember that well.
However I was less interested in embedded devices a
I cannot speak about small team experiences. Our projects
usually take around 30+ developers.
That it is a decent sized team to have to coordinate and it puts
emphasis on very different questions. The context I am thinking
of is much leaner - more like special forces than the regular
army (
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 13:02:06 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 22:05:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I don't know F#. I know what you mean, but I don't think the
competition to D consists of crappy languages - there are some
very smart and creative people with large res
Out of curiosity, what is lacking in the current commercial
offerings for hedge fund management? Why not use an existing
engine?
In the general sense, lots is lacking across the board. I
started a macro fund in 2012 with a former colleague from Citadel
in partnership with another company, wi
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 16:39:40 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote:
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 19:35:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I posted some thoughts on web docs writeup of C+= interface
here.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/fmjehcyzhnirybmnj...@forum.dlang.org#post-fmjehcyzhnirybmnjloj:40for
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:46:05 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
Am 28.01.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
On 1/28/15 9:01 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 16:18:18 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
We have a really nice script:
https://github.com/D-Progr
This has the advantage over existing situation where you have the
official library where things need to go through exacting and
time consuming process and then dub. Within dub every project is
at the same level and it is not obvious which projects are the
ones to use, and there is not necessar
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 18:45:13 UTC, Israel wrote:
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 18:11:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
This has the advantage over existing situation where you have
the official library where things need to go through exacting
and time consuming process and then dub. Wi
Things are never quite the same, but it is still interesting to
remind oneself of experience in other languages. History of
numpy /scipy here:
http://wiki.scipy.org/History_of_SciPy
Would it have made the cut if it had had to meet an
std.experimental level of quality in its earlier days ? A
On Monday, 5 November 2012 at 18:20:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
The closer that C++ gets to D, the less interested that many
people will be in adopting it, particularly because of the
large user base and the large amount of code out there that
already uses C++. Programmers have to be conv
On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 00:49:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Thanks for the good read!
BTW, one effect D has had is that other languages are adopting
D's features, though few will admit it.
Yes - eerily out of the book from the Innovator's Dilemma. But
as Jonathan said (and maybe you to
Wait, is this a reply today to a post made in November 2012?
-- Andrei
Yes, here is what happens:
1. person does a search, finds 2+ year old thread that he likes
to respond to.
2. Entire thread gets pushed to the "most recent" posts on
forum/newsgroup
3. Others now see the thread (possibly f
Excellent post. This situation is very obvious to us at
Sociomantic, as we're at the forefront of a massive disruption
that is happening in the advertising industry. D has far better
prospects in disruptive technology, rather than trying to
compete with incumbents in the rapidly disappearing tr
Absolutely not inappropriate. I actually prefer it being a
newsgroup user. Many people will instead reference a post on
the forum instead of replying, and then I have to use the forum
interface to see what they are talking about. I'd much rather
have the full discussion in my preferred interf
To Zachary:
"The big temptation for software developers is to *promise*
stability in order to attract the users they need in order to get
the feedback they need in order to create the best possible
design, and then break stability with the new design."
Yes - economists call this time inconsisten
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 22:10:35 UTC, Israel wrote:
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 05:51:18 UTC, tcak wrote:
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 04:37:21 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
What could be great is if DMD supported something like JAR
packages, and could look for modules inside of them. S
How could you be sure that after long lonely work the proposal
is worth
inclusion?
No need to be lonely. You can (and should) have community
projects on
dub. The dub repository is a distribution mechanism, if you
want community
contribution to a library advertise as such and git er done.
Hi Dicebot.
You are a clear thinker - close reasoning - and I admire that.
As you may see requirements are very lax. Only real difference
is that your proposal allows to accept modules that are not
supposed to ever go to Phobos at all - which I am still
convinced is a bad thing and belongs to
Perhaps it is over ambitious to start with the goal of producing
only code destined to end up in Phobos. The domain is so broadly
defined, and the standard to aspire to so high that one ends up
setting the goalpost so high that given likely contributors one
risks ending up running out of steam
It is a delicate matter. Yes, spreading over less important
issues is harmful for focusing on core ones. But the same time
having many small issues unresolved harms the contribution
culture as those keep annoying people over and over again.
Excellence can come in part from getting many small t
On Sunday, 8 February 2015 at 10:58:40 UTC, Baz wrote:
On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 08:05:28 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:46:05 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
Am 28.01.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
On 1/28/15 9:01 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
On Wednes
Via HN
https://github.com/andreaferretti/on-rust-and-nim
The original email
I hope you don't mind if I contact you directly, and ignore if
you're offended, but I saw your post on the parasail email list
and looked at your KMeans benchmark.
In particular, I was interested in your statement th
Clarification - author of the project unix in rust, not a book.
He is a beginner in both rust and Nim.
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:12:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
Via HN
https://github.com/andreaferretti/on-rust-and-nim
The original email
I hope you don't mind if I contact you direc
On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 15:15:21 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
It strikes me that D really ought to be able to work with GPGPU
– is
there already something and I just failed to notice. This is
data
parallelism but of a slightly different sort to that in
std.parallelism.
std.concurrent, st
One interesting C++ use in finance of CUDA. Joshi is porting
quantlib, or at least part of it, to a cuda environment. Some
nice speed ups for Bermudan pricing.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kooderive/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1473563
Released recently;
http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/mapreduce-for-c-run-native-code-in.html
Looks like it doesn't need a special compiler or anything. Is
there anything beyond needing to port C API that means one
couldn't use it with D? Any reason why it wouldn't be something
Just came across codetogo for ipad. It has been around a while,
but there didnt seem to be a mention of it previously. You can
write dlang code with syntax highlighting, and run it if you have
an Internet connection. I don't know yet how it works with multi
file programs, imports, etc, but a
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Facebook-supporting-development-of-the-D-programming-language/answer/Laeeth-Isharc
Quora has the vices of every democratic platform, but does seem
to reach people, and a different set to demographic of hacker
news and the like.
Hi John.
Tks help with ldc - will look at that shortly.
So Kingsly needs to use a predicate for canFind that returns true
if the two values being compared are close enough to being the
same given floating point quirks ?
Ie I think people diagnosed the problem, but what is the
solution...
Thanks.
Rough version for Wiki here:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Floating_Point_Gotchas
It could be tidier, but I am not able to do so at moment. Feel
free to change.
On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 14:04:17 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 12:39:20 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wro
Hi.
Some points I think are important follow. I can't do much on
these myself for now as computer use limited by a spinal injury.
1. Compilation speed of D under reference compiler compares very
favourably to most (all?) other compiled languages. This
facilitates rapid iteration, which wor
On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 10:53:21 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
I hope you'll get better!
Thanks. On the mend, but it takes time...
3. I have said so before (the GroupBy docs) - standard library
documentation is 'perfectly clear' if you have a technical
mindset and are used to reading formalis
On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 12:52:37 UTC, Chris wrote:
Apart from performance issues, for language processing, string
handling etc., Python quickly becomes a nightmare (UTF-8). Then
there are issues like the one that classes cannot really have
private variables.
[I am by no means expert in Py
Bokeh is a very cool charting library that is distinguished by a
focus on interactivity in the browser. Each chart is an html
file with an embedded bokeh javascript library - the server
generates JSON from the object model and the client take this and
renders it. There are ways to register ca
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 09:31:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 14:56:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
We invariably end up talking about language features and
syntax, as if D lost out against Go, because of feature X
being (or not being) there. We lose, because we fail t
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 08:07:26 UTC, ninja wrote:
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 01:22:47 UTC, cym13 wrote:
If stories are wanted, I might as well tell mine.
I am an attorney and a typical "programming-language-user": I
love to code my own utilities for the job (document-creation,
bookkeepin
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 08:54:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 08:33:43 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote:
I see D attracting *really* good programmers, programmers
from, let's say the 90-95th percentile in skill and talent in
their field on average. By marketing to these programm
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 14:47:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
In a recent thread[1] there was a lot of talk about how to make
D more attractive, how to communicate it's advantages to a
broader audience etc.
I was wondering, if Facebook would be interested in either
developing or championing the deve
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 16:26:10 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 14:47:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
In a recent thread[1] there was a lot of talk about how to
make D more attractive, how to communicate it's advantages to
a broader audience etc.
I was wondering, if Facebook wou
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 21:36:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
I'm talking about:
https://drepl.dawg.eu/
It has been several days already that it is coming soon. How
soon is soon ?
It's a different topic (and hope you will forgive my hijacking
your thread - I don't know the answer, but guess you
So I ported the C API for MathGL to D, and it is up at
code.dlang.org (under dmathgl). MathGL is a nice plotting
library.
http://mathgl.sourceforge.net/doc_en/Pictures.html#Pictures
Later I will work on porting the C++ interface, but so far it at
least works for the simplest sample. (Not tr
sorry - posted in wrong forum
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 00:54:07 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
So I ported the C API for MathGL to D, and it is up at
code.dlang.org (under dmathgl). MathGL is a nice plotting
library.
http://mathgl.sourceforge.net/doc_en/Pictures.html#Pictures
Later I will
On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 21:00:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 19:00:06 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
In addition, further development of the ability to call D from
R or Python* or Julia (or vice-versa) would also be a positive.
What do you have in mind? I no longer work much wi
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 03:14:30 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Laeeth Isharc" wrote in message
news:jmlgralvzaqperfkn...@forum.dlang.org...
DMD gave me an error message for the following declarations:
double mgl_rnd (...);
double mgl_rnd_ (...);
It says I need at least one fixed argumen
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 02:02:27 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 01:52:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
PyD is pretty nice, although one wouldn't want to call it from
an inner loop.
Why wouldn't you want to call it from an inner loop?
See benchmark someone did a while
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 16:14:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2015-03-18 05:49, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Thanks. I should have double checked but trusted dstep which
seems to have gotten confused by these ones. Its a great time
saver generally though.
Please report any issues with DStep
On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 07:37:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Language features should be tested with real users using
scientific validation processes, instead of being blindly added
to a language.
There is nothing intrinsically more scientific about basing a
decision on a study rather than e
On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 20:34:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/20/2015 8:25 AM, weaselcat wrote:
All of the content on rosettacode appears to be licensed under
GNU FDL, I
believe it would just have to be released under the GNU FDL or
a similar
copyleft license that fulfills the GNU FDL.
Yah, nitpicks should go there too. We need to have an
understanding that statistically everybody is on SO and nobody
here :o).
I have seen repeatedly - on stack overflow and elsewhere - people
benchmarking 'D' against other languages using dmd. The
messaging on the home page and download pag
Right, but it is likely that the nature of programming will ni
change. In the beginning of the web the search engines had
trouble matching anything but exact phrases, now they are
capable of figuring out what you probably wanted.
As you implicitly recognize later, it's not either/or, in the
s
On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:09:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/20/15 9:43 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 01:31:21 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/20/15 5:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/20/2015 5:23 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Yah, and uses ref
I earn my pay with Java development. In my spare time I learn
some Scala hoping there might be some work for me with Scala in
the future. Then I need to become familiar with all kinds of
new frameworks, tools, libraries and systems that continue to
pop up every year in the JVM eco system.
I
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:21:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I earn my pay with Java development. In my spare time I learn
some Scala hoping there might be some work for me with Scala
in the future. Then I need to become familiar with all kinds
of new frameworks, tools, libraries and sys
http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From
These sections are empty/close to empty:
Ruby / Java / Eiffel / C# / and Basic
I made a small start on the Python section. It needs more
concrete side-by-side examples of translating Python idioms into
D, but that is all I can do for now.
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 04:16:38 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 00:57:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://blog.experimentalworks.net/2015/01/the-d-language-a-sweet-spot-between-python-and-c/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30qqck/the_d_language_a_sw
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 05:04:57 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 30/03/2015 5:48 p.m., weaselcat wrote:
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 04:35:44 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 30/03/2015 5:25 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 04:16:38 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Monday, 30 M
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 06:50:19 UTC, george wrote:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/18/bioinformatics.btv098.full.pdf+html
and a feature
http://google-opensource.blogspot.nl/2015/03/gsoc-project-sambamba-published-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
How about we (ie you, the language expert!) jot down a few
more points
to later turn into a short but useful article on how to deal
with the GC
in practical situations?
I'm by far not a language expert, especially with manual memory
management. I can only discuss what I've dealt with my ow
My "prejudice", based on training people in Python and C++ over
the last few years, is that Python and C++ have a very strong
position in the bioinformatics community, with the use of
IPython (now becoming Jupyter) increasing and solidifying the
Python position.
It's just possible there is
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