Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 16:37:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 24/12/15 02:08, Walter Bright wrote: This has resurfaced on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/ In the comments, about the cluttered syntax. For the attributes, due to legacy reasons, it seems like D got all the defaults wrong. System instead of safe, mutable instead of immutable, not pure instead of pure and so on. We might not be able to get rid of any attributes but if some of these defaults were different perhaps it would not be necessary to use so many attributes all the time. I know that many here don't agree but personally I think the language could have less syntax it had AST macros. Some syntax that is built-in now could be moved to library code in the form of macros. I agree. As we all know, these choices have much to do with trying not to disturb all the welcome people from C/C++. But now that D is becoming a more self-confident language, and a larger percentage of newcomers to D have other backgrounds than C/C++, it is becoming increasingly important to have the language "do the Right Thing" from the outset. By now the former C/C++ programmer has to learn an entirely new language, as compared to 5 or especially 10 years ago, when D could (well, at least sarcastically) be described as just another Dialect of C. Today, D is a proud and strong, and not even a new, language, and the Default choices of system/safe, (im)mutable, (not)safe, etc., should be based only on choices that are obvious when we look at D now and in the foreseeable future. Not on what the past was.
Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 13:03:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Time to give your old articles a better home, I think, assuming you have the copyright or can get it. https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b89.html Firefox gives me this: www.digitalmars.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for digitalmars.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) And I believe this is an old problem.
Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"
On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 16:00:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s9cfe/rust_impressions_from_a_cd_programmer_part_1/ Ali Atila wrote: I thought I’d like Rust more than I actually do at this point. I’m glad I’m taking the time to learn it, but I’m not sure how likely I’ll choose to use it for any future project. Currently the only real advantage it has for me over D is that it has no runtime and could more easily be used on bare metal projects. (I'm on an iPad. Sorry for idiot quoting.) My point: until you can easily write D bare-metal code, without any runtime, and honestly without garbage collection, it just isn't a Real Systems Language. With the World turning to IOT, and most startups having an embedded system as at least a part of their offering, even old languages should take this seriously. Not everybody actually fathoms the size of this tsunami, or the disruption it'll bring. It's like the 80's when mini-computer corporations did't notice micro manufacturers. From their perspective, the tide turned overnight. And now it's us.
Re: D Language Architect
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of features" etc. Although D looks quite different now than it was in 2006, the "creation" act only happens once, so "co-creator" is inaccurate and shifts credit inappropriately. Last thing you want in PR is someone in the crowd to go "wait, but you didn't create it" and the next-to-last thing is to need to define the relationship between you and what you're selling as "well, it's complicated". So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator". No need to call me that way :o). Thanks, Andrei Excellent, Andrei! And what a timely coincidence, since the other day I saw "co-creator" and thought less than favorably about you for it. But D Language Architect is excellent! Kudos!
Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language
On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 14:41:20 UTC, GrandAxe wrote: This is to inform the D Language community that the first viable general artificial algorithm is being written in D. It is called Organic Big data intelligence (OBI); the website is at www.okeuvo.com. Some of its capabilities are: 1. Ability to learn 2. Ability to analyse 3. Problem solving 4. Moral judgement 5. Ability to feel emotions 6. Free will 7. Consciousness 8. Self awareness Maybe we should create a new concept: Software from Nigeria. You only need a fashionable looking website with lofty promises, some googlable discussion on a forum for some obscure programming language, a mention of patents pending, and maybe an interview on some 2nd rate tech site. What else would you need for credibility to whet the appetite of amateur investors, lottery winners, or heirs. I am certain this is not the last time we will see this kind of "entrepreneurship". But it makes me sad to see D dragged into it.
