I didn't know that the use of the c-word was considered misogynous,
and I don't consider it to be. It's just an insult, and you're not
fighting sexism. The software industry being what it is, one of the
most racist and sexist industries, your time is better spent writing
about that. I do agree t
My rant wasn't about his lack of fluency in the English language. You
only learn once what a sentence is, and the concept translates over to
most other natural languages. The same is true with the concept of
constructing a paragraph. Even if he's not a native English speaker,
I'm willing to bet
I didn't make the assumption that English is his mother tongue; however,
judging by his writing, I can tell that he's been using the English
language for at least a few years. In any case, the idea of a sentence or
a paragraph is not unique to the English language. You learn what a
sentence is an
I can't take a blog post seriously when it's poorly written and full of
grammatical errors. If you are in an engineering field of any kind, and
you can't construct a paragraph in your favorite natural language, you're
not worth anyone's time. The author of that blog is nothing but a
sophisticated
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Walter Bright
wrote:
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> How do you implement a moving GC in D if D has
>> raw pointers?
>>
>
> It can be done if the D compiler emits full runtime type info. It's a
> solved problem with GCs.
>
>
> D semantics doesn't allow the GC to automatically modify those
>
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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>
> Great, a few representative links would be most welcome.
>
>
>
Here is a good starting point (it's a classic):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
Here is an
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mostly good points, but the bountysource program is an experiment by
> Facebook, not by myself. And (without me trying to speak on Facebook's
> behalf) it would be difficult to argue t
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Benjamin Thaut via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> 2) Quit D. (which is becomeing more and more an option when reading the
> recent news group discussions.)
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut
>
I never thought I would say this, but I have
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP61
>
What happens if you try to interface with two different C++ libraries that
use the same exact namespaces?
