On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 02:37:09 +1000 Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 September 2013 01:02, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > > Trying upgrading Windows. https://www.fsf.org/windows8 > > > Sadly, I already use Windows 8... *shudder* >_< >
How do you get anything done? ;) > > > > An IDE is not a feature of a language. Unless you are a RAD > > language that removes the ability of developers to write a single > > line of code (and do it awfully). > > > > It certainly is in the case of C#. I think it's also central to C#'s > success. People got in, and feel productive within seconds of firing > it up. I've never had such a great language adoption experience. I > clicked create project, and started writing code. > The IDE is super helpful, and you can basically code by using the '.' > key and consequent auto-completion popups as a documentation > replacement. > FWIW: I was a big fan of C# initially, but somewhere around VS 2005 it became so sluggish/bloated that it quickly negated any time savings. Couldn't get things done because it was like driving down the freeway at 15MPH. > > Do. But the website is slow, and you probably haven't tried to use the > internet in Australia recently. > Also, our new government intends to set Australia's internet back > about 10 years: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-6E5yX1E0U > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpN7VCzDTdg > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyY-xI6zgfk > > Quality leadership to be sure... > Note: I can only watch these in 320p after about 20-30 seconds buffer > time ;) > Genuine question, not sarcasm: Have they decided to stop engaging in thinly-veiled censorship yet? Or at least admit that they censor? ("Oh no, we're not censoring! We're merely 'denying classification' on things that are outlawed without government classification!") > > That does seem more of the point of D interface files (.di). > > > > I'm amazed at the resistance to this (a few no's, any yes's at all?). > Do people here actually write D code, or rather, non-trivial D code? > O_o Perhaps the dev's here use relatively few, or very simple classes? > Seriously, how do you quickly read and understand the API through the > noise? Proper API documentation. > I really can't get my head around it... Why wouldn't you want > to be able to read a convenient summary of what a class is and does? We do. That's why we have documentation and the -D flag. > And why would you want to indent every line of function code by a few > tabs? > This isn't Python, nobody *has* to indent it. > Can anyone offer me ANY benefits? It legitimately blows my mind... O_O > To each his own, I guess. I was genuinely surprised a year or so ago when I first discovered there were people who actually liked trying to keep two separate copies of member signatures in sync.
