On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 21:25:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/6/2016 1:36 PM, Dave wrote:
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 20:33:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/6/2016 12:44 PM, Satoshi wrote:
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More complex? Wow!
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C++ for junior programmers is easier? Wow!
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Most learn C++ in college. So they have a 'headstart'
Even acquiring minimal competency in C++ has a very long
learning curve, or perhaps I just have a different idea of what
minimal competency is. Heck, the C++ code I wrote just a few
years ago I regard as crap today.
My personal pet peeve are junior programmers who think they get
it, find some perverted corner case in the language, and build
their entire application around that. They confuse their
mastery of the corner case with competence.
(This happens with all languages, not just C++, it's just that
C++ provides so many opportunities for it!)
D is a little bit harder than most considering the lack of
tutorials and the chaotic documentation that I have eluded to.
Consider this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8BGQ3CfPBs
I saw this series literally the day AFTER they released Swift.
I find lots of D talks, but nothing even REMOTELY close to this.
I have to fall back onto your documentation that is littered with
non-useful examples and broken links.
This isn't a knock on YOUR work personally. Every time I learn a
detail of this language I am pleased with the solution (maybe
with a slight caveat of the GC). It's just how long it takes to
figure it out and learn what is needed to do things right.
