On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:54:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
So the implication that use of the nonstandard form would lead
to confusion is pure pedantry.
Yes, indeed.
Much of the difficulty with discussions of language in the modern
world comes from not making a distinction between its denotative
On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 16:34:59 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:54:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
So the implication that use of the nonstandard form would lead
to confusion is pure pedantry.
Yes, indeed.
Much of the difficulty with discussions of language in the
modern
On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 09:38:02 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
On 12/06/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote:
man is still used as a gender neutral pronoun in German,
however, for
some reason it's frowned upon these days, just like one in
English.
It's considered arrogant and old fashioned, but it's effin
On 12/06/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote:
man is still used as a gender neutral pronoun in German, however, for
some reason it's frowned upon these days, just like one in English.
It's considered arrogant and old fashioned, but it's effin useful and
solves a lot of problems.
Mind you, decisions made
On 12/06/2015 10:37 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Yea, I'm fine with ain't being considered an actual word. Years ago, I
used to hear a lot of 'Ain't' isn't a real word, but meh, it's used as
a word, even the people who don't like it still know full-well exactly
what it means, so...I ain't got a
On 6/13/2015 10:26 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Actually I think it matters more if the person you are talking to knows
the gender of the person you are talking about, in the shop sentence the
gender of the friend is unknown to the person you are talking to so
they still works.
So then, use the
On 12/06/2015 2:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/10/2015 12:56 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend) is gearing up to define
they as both singular and plural, thus at a stroke
On 11/06/2015 2:30 AM, weaselcat wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage, he
is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 02:12:39 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend)
Glad to hear it. Please tell your countrymen to prefer
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:13:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
-ise. If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were
taught -ize, they would find -ise strange. It's ridiculous
how people get attached to stuff like this.
I have to admit I use -ize over -ise because I think it
visually looks
On 2015-06-12 01:52, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm in the compiler business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIyClDuBgo
You're in the Empire business as well ;) Or was.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:35:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:13:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
-ise. If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were
taught -ize, they would find -ise strange. It's ridiculous
how people get attached to stuff like this.
I have
On 06/11/2015 06:35 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:14:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
https://youtu.be/VjNVPO8ff84 :3
https://youtu.be/bJDY5zTiWUk maybe this too(?)
Never heard those before, those are really
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 18:32:22 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:19:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just kept asking for corks...
For me that sounds 100% fine...
Ah, ok. I found this link interesting:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Banned in the US: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love
Song and SABRINA - Boys (Video Original) - HD.
Banned? Oh well, Lydon of Sex Pistols is an anarchist and Sabrina
shows of her tits with a wardrobe malfunction. I guess
Dave whate...@whatever.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:06:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 18:17:01 UTC, Dave wrote:
Disagree. Traditionally also handled by throwing exceptions. C#
throws a Format exception if a parse fails.
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:52:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
was not related to english singular they… but it could also
come from Sie through the trade German influence in Bergen
around 1300…
Or more likely Danish… I think they have same polite singular
form De. It makes sense that
Originally (.Net 1) there was only 'Parse', 'TryParse' came in
.Net 2, I
guess they had to admit that exceptions are not always
practical.
I think TryParse (and anything marked prefixed with Try) is meant
for quick stuff. It doesn't return any error. Just a boolean
indicating that it failed.
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Here is a nice documentary about the 80s :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Wow, just watched the first minute, that's freaking sweet!
Definitely gonna watch the rest of that later.
The historical accuracy is indeed
On 06/12/2015 03:58 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Banned in the US: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song and
SABRINA - Boys (Video Original) - HD.
Banned? Oh well,
On 06/12/2015 07:48 AM, Chris wrote:
The same goes for ain't. There's no reason why ain't should be bad
English. I ain't got no money is perfectly fine, although it might
make the odd Oxbridge fellow cringe and spill his tea. But what the
Dickens, old chap!
Yea, I'm fine with ain't being
On 6/13/2015 3:32 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they just
kept asking for corks...
For me that sounds 100% fine...
Not to me. Gender-neutrality is for the cases when the gender is unknown
or the subject is generic, e.g. A person. I would
On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 01:09:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On 6/13/2015 3:32 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Not to me. Gender-neutrality is for the cases when the gender
is unknown or the subject is generic, e.g. A person. I would
assume that you are likely to know the gender of a friend, in
which
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:05:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
Do you speak Bokmål or Nynorsk?
Bokmål, but neither Bokmål or Nynorsk are naturally spoken
languages, they are written languages.
Nobody actually speaks Nynorsk (only in poetry, drama and movies
where it is read in a rather literal
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 13:05:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
Do you speak Bokmål or Nynorsk?
Bokmål, but neither Bokmål or Nynorsk are naturally spoken
languages, they are written languages.
Nobody actually speaks Nynorsk (only
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 09:26:29 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
On 11/06/2015 2:30 AM, weaselcat wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD
usage,
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:02:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Hey, you see that person over there? What are they doing? Is
that their big red stuffed dinosaur?
A person came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just keept asking for corks, we sell paint...
I am going to wear this big
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 11:35:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
They as singular feels weird tho, but maybe it is related to
the archaic thou and thee? We had the same in norwegian ~60
years ago. De (they) was used as singular towards strangers
and du (you) was used with people you were
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:19:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:02:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
Hey, you see that person over there? What are they doing? Is
that their big red stuffed dinosaur?
A person came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
People here often request features you can only ask for after
years of programming experience. This shows that there is a
lot of experience in the D community. Without experience D
wouldn't be where it is, having only
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 03:04:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
The biggest difference between the D community in general and
other communities is actually quite simple.
Experience.
Indeed! The world has never seen a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on experience in
comparison to Go is... not right... given the experienced
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:11:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
actually making a good GC for D is difficult because the only
type of barrier you can use it hardware protection faults. The
performance dropoff isn't _that_ bad from what I've read in
various papers.
I should have an article up in a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:52:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
heavily disagree honestly.
Ken Thompson - B?
Rob Pike - Limbo? Joking?
Not your kind of experience? But still experience...
So there is a limit to how far experience can take you.
Anyway, language designers that do multiple
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:52:06 UTC, Chris wrote:
vaguely familiar but I cannot put my finger on it. Usually I
don't follow an idea that somehow sounds familiar.
Well, in this case it might sound familiar to me because it is
based manipulated sample of another tune I made... But I
I really wish people would stop complaining about other
languages having the same features as D without giving credit.
It is impossible to figure out exactly where ideas from
features come from, but most features predate even C++ if being
first is the main point.
Hear, hear, is it so
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
As Tofu Ninja said, a dictionary only (partly) reflects the
current usage of a language. Look up the word sophisticated and
you'll find out that it had a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 10:17:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Now, now. It is true that bad and frustrating experience with
other languages drove me (and probably others) to D.
Suggesting that a language like D is based on
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:13:53 UTC, Dave wrote:
Another backwards annotation is nothrow. I don't really care if
something doesn't throw, I care when it throws, because then I
have to do
something (or my program may crash unexpectedly).
I recently debugged such no crash bug: the code
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas Google is
not. Google can
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 09:14:00 UTC, Chris wrote:
Because this hurts some people. The D crowd doesn't snob other
languages, in fact, people here often point at features of
other languages saying Da', can I have this, pleze?.
On 6/10/15 6:43 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 01:30:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far as
I'm aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a gender
neutral pronoun.
I am just saying that personally it sounds
On 06/11/2015 06:52 AM, Chris wrote:
In your case, the song reminds me of:
Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMAtbq0bjY
(God, I'm so old!) :-)
Oh man, that takes me back. 80's had the best pop music, IMHO. Miss that
stuff. Although, I still have trouble
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
It *is* very fun to implement. I'm more partial to this one though:
On 06/11/2015 07:37 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:21:27 UTC, Dave wrote:
Exceptions are not meant to force handling errors at he source.
This attitude is why so many exceptions go unhandled at the
upper
layers. When you have a top level that calls a function that
calls 50 other functions, each that throw a
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:49:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Then brainfuck wins.
Always.
It *is* very fun to implement.
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 17:42:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:49:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 17:45:32 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
https://gist.github.com/sprain/be75c6c456146b272178
Ah, that's awsome! Instead of using true and false you get to use
thumbs-up and thumbs-down...
Exceptions are for when something went wrong. Returned errors
are for when the function can't do what you asked it to do, but
that doesn't mean that something went wrong.
You seem to be implying this as a fact, when traditionally this
is not how things are done.
For example, if you try to
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:40:55 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
It's quite a nice twist that the thread discussing which
language is better branched into what version of English is the
right one - as if such a thing is meaningful. Arguing about
definitions and terminology is surely such a useless
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 18:17:01 UTC, Dave wrote:
Disagree. Traditionally also handled by throwing exceptions. C#
throws a Format exception if a parse fails.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f02979c7%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
It seems to be a controversial subject:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1090#issuecomment-12737986
As the topic has been argued for the past 50 years. No one ever
agrees
on the best way to handle errors. But I think most of this is
because programmers tend to be the most
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:40:55 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
Hear, hear, is it so unlikely that one footstep should fall in
the footprint of another?
We all stand on the shoulders of giants, etc.
This is it. Great languages (IMO) have condensed their features
down to the smallest set of
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:11:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
As a norwegian I can't make up my mind as to whether I should
write color or colour. I suspect it will be taken as some
kind of political statement. Hey, I am neutral! I use color
in source code and colour in writing. :)
I should also mention that D has essentially enabled this
philosophy that I am speaking about concerning errors by using
the 'scope' keyword. I believe handling errors with scope
literally translates to try\catch blocks behind the scenes. I
also believe this is an encouraged way of dealing with
D is really unique in the sense that it's open enough for
people not to feel that they have to role their own. D also has
enough features to satisfy many different users, although - and
this is often forgotten - you don't _have_ to use them all.
People like Go and Rust, because it tells them
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:05:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:42:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
People are not abandoning Dart because shows any signs of
being a dead or a bad language, they do it because they don't
trust Google.
My experience is many believe
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:37:21 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla
alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:15:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:37:21 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla
alone, they
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:49:20 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
D is really unique in the sense that it's open enough for
people not to feel that they have to role their own. D also
has enough features to satisfy many different users, although
- and this is often forgotten - you don't _have_ to use
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:27:09 UTC, Dave wrote:
The promise of exceptions isn't to not have to specifically
handle errors in every layer
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't exceptions in D used for
general error handling? Doesn't Phobos prefer exceptions over
return codes?
It seems
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:37:21 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla
alone, they
are more idealistic than Google.
Agreed. In concrete
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:21:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
And Google will be right in abandoning an unsuccessful project.
Supporting such project wouldn't benefit anyone and reusing
resources in other promising projects is to the benefit of
everyone.
Actually, it is a problem that makes
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:21:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:37:21 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla
alone, they
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:42:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
People are not abandoning Dart because shows any signs of being
a dead or a bad language, they do it because they don't trust
Google.
My experience is many believe in corporate backing. Is it just PR?
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:14:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:14:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
https://youtu.be/VjNVPO8ff84 :3
https://youtu.be/bJDY5zTiWUk maybe this too(?)
Nono, the 80's was more like this:
https://youtu.be/Az_GCJnXAI0
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:14:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/11/2015 06:52 AM, Chris wrote:
In your case, the song reminds me of:
Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMAtbq0bjY
(God, I'm so old!) :-)
Oh man, that takes me back. 80's had the best
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:06:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 18:17:01 UTC, Dave wrote:
Disagree. Traditionally also handled by throwing exceptions. C#
throws a Format exception if a parse fails.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f02979c7%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 18:17:01 UTC, Dave wrote:
nothrow by default is combining the slowness of exceptions
with the limitness of returned errors. Why would anyone want
to do that?
How would something that is guaranteeing that exceptions won't
be
used, combining anything with the idea
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:14:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 16:14:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
https://youtu.be/VjNVPO8ff84 :3
https://youtu.be/bJDY5zTiWUk maybe this too(?)
Nono, the 80's was
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Nono, the 80's was more like this:
https://youtu.be/Az_GCJnXAI0
https://youtu.be/PN7dd2fW3OQ
https://youtu.be/Ug8WeZyTxXg
https://youtu.be/drGeLouMm6s
Ouch, guess will stick with modern art -_-
He is saying that now anything that throws will not only be
slow but also have the same limitations as returned errors.
nothrow by default is combining the slowness of exceptions with
the limitness of returned errors.
He literally said combine the slowness of exceptions. So I don't
know how to
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:57:36 UTC, Dave wrote:
assume I misunderstood him.
Yeah, its whatever, maybe I am misunderstanding him and your
original interpretation is correct.
That is a legitimate concern, but I don't think it is correct.
The transitive nature would enforce that you
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:53:57 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Ouch, guess will stick with modern art -_-
The modern art of early 80s pop would be Yello and Art of Noise.
Music with a at-the-time new sample-based sound image heavily
based on these expensive beasts:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:13:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:11:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
A ground breaking GC will emerge from the synthesis of the
unsurpassable number of endless GC debates.
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:15:31 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
Boehm's GC uses this and regularly kept up(~5-10%) with
essentially all of the top of the line GCs in all the papers I
read.
Ah, so you only read papers about very bad GCs, that explains it.
;)
On 2015-06-10 18:34, Joakim wrote:
May still be possible, Apple just announced that the default format to
submit apps for iOS will be bitcode from now on, which people are
speculating is some form of llvm bitcode:
I'm pretty sure they mentioned it was LLVM IR on the Platform, State of
the
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 03:04:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
The biggest difference between the D community in general and
other communities is actually quite simple.
Experience.
Indeed! The world has never seen a more experienced collection of
freshmen language designers. Theory does
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
A ground breaking GC will emerge from the synthesis of the
unsurpassable number of endless GC debates. That is the
sanctimony of meritocracy.
actually making a good GC for D is difficult because the only
type of barrier
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:11:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:08:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
A ground breaking GC will emerge from the synthesis of the
unsurpassable number of endless GC debates. That is the
sanctimony of meritocracy.
actually making a good
On 6/11/2015 6:40 AM, Dave wrote:
I believe handling errors with scope
literally translates to try\catch blocks behind the scenes.
Yes, exactly.
It should be noted that functional languages that utilize monads
often make you consider the exceptional case, and this is
enforced by the compiler (sound familiar?)
I also literally said with the limitness of returned errors..
That part is important part of the sentence. My point is that
the
On 6/11/2015 3:52 AM, Chris wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMAtbq0bjY
(God, I'm so old!) :-)
There's no business like compiler business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzhNkQENOs
I'm in the compiler business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIyClDuBgo
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:57:36 UTC, Dave wrote:
In regards to being faster, I'm not a big fan of exceptions in
the first place. This probably explains my perspective on them,
but I am familiar with their typical use case. And it's to
communicate errors. I'd much prefer something like what
On 6/10/2015 12:56 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend) is gearing up to define
they as both singular and plural, thus at a stroke solving all the
he/she, she/he, (s)he, it
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English
language
whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend)
Glad to hear it. Please tell your countrymen to prefer the '-ize'
suffix, as we colonials do, to the '-ise' one,
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:45:49 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 07:15:31 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
Boehm's GC uses this and regularly kept up(~5-10%) with
essentially all of the top of the line GCs in all the papers I
read.
Ah, so you only read papers about very bad GCs,
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:13:53 UTC, Dave wrote:
D did get thread local storage correct, but I think people are
starting to get on board with having restrictions by default
because it prevents bugs (and the annotations are grepable).
Kind
of like what Rust is doing. If this is the case,
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:53:06 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:46:48 UTC, Israel wrote:
Ruby that compiles?
Yet Rust, Nim and Crystal is a very young languages. And alas,
life is not eternal to wait five years of a flourishing
language :) There are already
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/396c95/of_the_emerging_systems_languages_rust_d_go_nim/
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On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 07:40:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 08:17:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 07:40:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 01:21:05 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:25:36 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, Ali
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 09:23:54 UTC, Chris wrote:
One big difference between the D community and other languages'
communities is is that D people keep criticizing the language
and see every little flaw in every little corner, which is good
and which is why D is the way it is. Other
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:53:06 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 18:46:48 UTC, Israel wrote:
Ruby that compiles?
Yet Rust, Nim and Crystal is a very young languages. And alas,
life is not eternal to wait five years of a flourishing
language :) There are already
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 09:23:54 UTC, Chris wrote:
One big difference between the D community and other languages'
communities is is that D people keep criticizing the language
and see every little flaw in every little corner, which is good
and which is why D is the way it is.
Or
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:02:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Yeah, I think it would be nice if one could change the culture
of programming so that people easily could combine any 2
languages in the same project.
But shouldn't there be one language that's right for everyone?
(BTW I
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:22:51 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
Wasn't LLVM supposed to solve that, being a virtual machine
for compilation to low level native code?
May still be possible, Apple just announced that the default
format to submit apps for iOS will be bitcode from now on, which
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