On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:32:18PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:26:46 -0400 > Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > > > On 5/9/13 10:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > > With all this focus on technicalities, we forgot to discuss the > > > gist of it: what did you guys think of the talk? > > > > > > > That should better go in the digitalmars.D group though... > > > > Very good talk! And good production quality, too. This would be a > great thing to point people towards to introduce them to D.
+1. I listened to the talk yesterday... it was awesome! Can't wait for the other videos to be put up. One tiny nitpick, though. In the example about sorting lines in a file, there was a syntax error in the code (missing '.' and the end of the first/second line). I know, I know ... but it was distracting me from what Walter was saying, my brain keeps going "but there's a syntax error! Is he going to talk about the syntax error? It's a syntax error!..." :-P [...] > I love the D-like line on the first slide. Kind of a strange API being > used ;), but quintessentially D syntax. Cute :) The "100 lines of > boilerplate" bit was great too. Made me cheer even though no one else > was around. [...] Yeah, pretty much sums up how I feel about IDEs. But OTOH, the question at the end from the professor/lecturer proves that the majority of today's coders expect IDEs. I would vote for better education, but you can't deny the need for IDEs to at least smooth the transition from other languages. In any case, I totally agree that if a language *needs* an IDE in order to cope with the amount of required boilerplate, then something is clearly very, very wrong at a fundamental level. I guess that's why I'm a D fan. :) T -- Food and laptops don't mix.