Re: [OT] On Giving Presentations

2016-05-22 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 18:35:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-lessons.html#expository A lot of us wind up giving presentations now and then, and all of us can improve. This article has some great advice, and is a good read, too. Very n

Re: Interest in Boston area D meetups?

2016-05-22 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 13:17:35 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Is anyone interested in having D meetups in Boston area? I'm not familiar with really any other locals (well, there is one person I know of :) -Steve I would love to be part of the Boston D community. Maybe we can meet on/n

Re: D as a college language

2018-05-05 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 4 May 2018 at 11:35:22 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote: So i'm a college student in and what bothers me is that there seem to kind of assume programming languages don't evolve or don't get replaced by better ones. Right now if you go to college you'll most likely get tought c++, c# or java

Re: D as a college language

2018-05-08 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 07:37:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/4/2018 4:35 AM, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote: Since D seems to be a language that supports a lot of programming paradigms very well, wouldn't it be beneficial to learn people declarative programming using D for a little and from there

D on top of Hacker News!

2018-06-03 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
It was nice to read Walter's article from 2014... Wonder who posted it, and how long it will stay in the visibility range, but it was a nice feeling to see it at the top. -- Sameer

Re: D on top of Hacker News!

2018-06-04 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 3 June 2018 at 20:12:03 UTC, JakubJ wrote: On Sunday, 3 June 2018 at 16:58:23 UTC, Sameer Pradhan wrote: It was nice to read Walter's article from 2014... Wonder who posted it, and how long it will stay in the visibility range, but it was a nice feeling to see it at the top. -- Sa

Whence came UFCS?

2018-07-26 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
During our Boston D Meetup today, we went through and deconstructed Walter's wonderfully elegant blog post from 2012 called "Component Programming in D" http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240008321&siteSectionName=architecture-and-design I stumbled upon this gem (and another score

Re: Whence came UFCS?

2018-07-27 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
Wow! I am glad to see so many responses! Thanks for your indulgence. So, to summarize, the concept (no pun intended) has been around for a while in D---originally in the context of arrays. It just might have been a bug, or an unintended side-effect. I intend to read the archival posts and mi

Re: Looking for the article comparing D to Ada and others

2018-07-27 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
I had no idea of the DoD's Steelman requirements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelman_language_requirements) I found another documents that has the same table that was on the website listed in an earlier post. Here are the individual links: https://www.dwheeler.com/steelman/steeltab.htm h

Found D in the strangest of places... Right under the letter D

2018-07-29 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
By some bizarre coincidence, or rightfully so, an (somewhat artificial attempt at a cleanroom-ish) unbiased attempt to find out what Google associates with each letter of the English alphabet, someone with extra time on their hands at BBC's technology department, I was pleasantly surprised to f

Re: Ali's slides from his C++Now talk

2017-06-16 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 23:31:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: Enjoying going through these: http://ddili.org/AliCehreli_CppNow_2017_Competitive_Advantage_with_D.no_pause.pdf Ali really has a gift for explaining stuff, we're lucky to have him. I must say that I really enjoyed the slides as well! Hop

Re: Mir GLAS is a C library and passes Natlib's test suite! And questions :-)

2016-10-28 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 28 October 2016 at 06:31:19 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 28 October 2016 at 03:44:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/27/16 3:59 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: [...] I must plead ignorance on the finer interface details, but from what I am reading this seems like an ama

Re: [your code here]

2016-12-01 Thread Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 at 14:26:11 UTC, ringo starr wrote: swello.edu This post screams Captcha! Just to make sure it was not a false positive, I went to the (non-existent) URL. On the bright side, the forum seems to be widely circulated—enough to attract spammers! As far as I can tell,