Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:13 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> Walter Bright:
>>> 5. I've discovered over the years that programmers write in particular
>>> "islands" of the language. No matter how large a code base they
>>> produce, they never stray outside that island, so once the
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
5. I've discovered over the years that programmers write in
particular "islands" of the language. No matter how large a code
base they produce, they never stray outside that island, so once
the bugs they initially encountered are fixed, they never run into
compil
Walter Bright:
> 5. I've discovered over the years that programmers write in particular
> "islands" of the language. No matter how large a code base they produce,
> they never stray outside that island, so once the bugs they initially
> encountered are fixed, they never run into compiler bugs an
On 2010-03-02 09:25:05 +0100, Walter Bright said:
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
that s good, but maybe for a release one should also try to compile
some of the largish projects that are done in D (even al older frozen
version) to see if in larger codebases something comes up...
At least for D 1.0 on a
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
that s good, but maybe for a release one should also try to compile some
of the largish projects that are done in D (even al older frozen
version) to see if in larger codebases something comes up...
At least for D 1.0 on a fixed system the idea "if id did compile it
should
On 3/1/2010 11:43 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
>
> On 2-mar-10, at 01:26, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
>>> Maybe I am painting the situation more dire than it is, but I sure
>>> got annoyed by it, and I hope that it will be rectified soon.
>>> More than new language features D needs
On 2-mar-10, at 01:26, Walter Bright wrote:
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
Maybe I am painting the situation more dire than it is, but I sure
got annoyed by it, and I hope that it will be rectified soon.
More than new language features D needs stable and efficient
libraries, something that can come o
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
Maybe I am painting the situation more dire than it is, but I sure got
annoyed by it, and I hope that it will be rectified soon.
More than new language features D needs stable and efficient libraries,
something that can come only if the compiler is stable enough, and at
lea
On 27-feb-10, at 15:49, Lutger wrote:
D1 has but one major advantage over D2: it is much more mature. I think D1
has a future as long as that is the case, or as long as there is a large
enough body of code depending on it. Assuming Walter Bright keeps supporting
it of course (as he has).
Well
