Wow many questions. I'll try my best but I'm not the most
knowledgeable person out there.
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 01:20:43 UTC, Bill Buckels wrote:
On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 21:06:52 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
This seems out of place? What about D for .NET?
That was really my question:) If D was to have the sfloat24
built-in data type, to what extent would that affect using an
interface layer like .NET?
Wouldn't affect.
Or does anybody use D in .NET? Does anyone care what Microsoft
does with their layers?
There was D.NET attempt but it has stalled, conflation of slices
and dynamic arrays was one of the problems IIRC. So no, I think
nobody runs D on the CLR.
How about IOs? Anything precise happening in D over there? OSX?
D runs native there.
Would the availability of sfloat24 in D expand the use of D in
the .NET environment? Or for that matter any environment?
Arduino? Raspberry Pi? Bluetooth?
No since D already have custom float, which can be tailored for
the problem at hand (like you would tailor a fixed-point integer
to a particular problem).
Anyone doing FPGA in D on some new contraption that isn't built
yet?
Don't think so. FPGA men mostly have contempt for C code
converted to FPGA code.
Exactly what are your views on sfloat24 after reading the
papers? Rsik versus Reward for any language like D in this case
that took a giant leap of faith and decided to provide support
for sfloat24?
I personally don't need that type. I would say risk = reward = 0
:), since custom numerical data-type can be easily implemented in
D.
Might be useful on small hardware with no accelerated float like
you suggested.
Is this just something that electrical engineers are going to
use doing experimental programming or has sfloat24 some
practical merit that would make it desirable as a built-in data
type for the D community.
Well it doesn't need to be builtin anyway, so you can go ahead
and implement sfloat24.d
The banking software I wrote back then runs after-hours and
nobody much cared if it was COBOL or C++ back then... is it
still the same job market today for you even in D? Or does the
bank just add a couple more blade servers when things bog-down?
I don't work in this field but performance is still paramount,
and you can't just tell the customer to add blades, consumption
and space are important too.
With the prevalence of blue-tooth and embedded systems today,
are there any D programmers who are working in those
environments.
There are a few.
If so, does anyone want it besides scientists? Where's the use
case in D? If any?
Very high code reuse through classical OO polymorphism and static
polymorphism. High performance, productivity and friendliness.
Doing any calculation at compile-time, then generating code out
of it.
Not dealing with the high cost of writing C++ ;)
A lot of liberty in the way of doing things.
Questions of that nature...
Also is anyone working on a trajectory calculation for a lunar
landing in D? My friend Jack Crenshaw is with one of the google
ranger groups... but I don't get out much so I don't know what
other people do anymore:)
So I thought I should ask.
Bill
