Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Don wrote: Sean Kelly wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: I have two more that compliment that. Some people think there writing "complement" and "they're" correctly but they aren't. I see what you did there! It peeked my interest, but it was a mute point. Well, that point is seperate from m

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-16 Thread Mike Parker
Don wrote: Sean Kelly wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: I have two more that compliment that. Some people think there writing "complement" and "they're" correctly but they aren't. I see what you did there! It peeked my interest, but it was a mute point. You mean a moo point, shurely.

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-16 Thread Don
Sean Kelly wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: I have two more that compliment that. Some people think there writing "complement" and "they're" correctly but they aren't. I see what you did there! It peeked my interest, but it was a mute point.

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-12 Thread Sean Kelly
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > I have two more that compliment that. Some people think there writing > "complement" and "they're" correctly but they aren't. I see what you did there!

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Mike Parker wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: 2009/11/5 Jonas Byström : Hi, I had great hope that D within a few years would be the new standard for people requiring high performance from their language. Then I got wiser (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?p

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-12 Thread Mike Parker
Bill Baxter wrote: 2009/11/5 Jonas Byström : Hi, I had great hope that D within a few years would be the new standard for people requiring high performance from their language. Then I got wiser (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?partner=fogcreek), re

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Baxter
2009/11/5 Jonas Byström : > Hi, > > I had great hope that D within a few years would be the new standard for > people requiring high performance from their language. Then I got wiser > (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?partner=fogcreek), > realizing tha

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-11 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:46:21 -0500, gzp wrote: > So please emphasize the wiki4D a little bit more (like in the overview, > on the future page, so on) on the official page. I think it'd help > newbies a lot to find informations more easily. > > So thanks - this a reason I like D+community, they

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-10 Thread gzp
Thanks for all. Well, it seems as all of my concerns are answered somewhere on the net. So than i have only one more request left, please update the web pages on the http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/... to have references to the more verbose net sources (and not just at the additional links) Ex

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-10 Thread Jesse Phillips
My first observation is that you are using D2 expecting it to be stable. The website still doesn't make it clear that D2 should be used for minor tasks to experiment with the language. That said, I can see the concern that if you code for D1 you'll still have the incompatibility. But it would st

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-10 Thread bearophile
gzp: > but by the time I was almost finished, I saw some major > features are being altered. The situation is really simple: D2 is alpha state still, don't use it to develop real code. Use it only if you want to do experiments or if you want to add things to its std lib. For all other usages u

Re: D loosing the battle

2009-11-10 Thread gzp
I've been following D for a while, and I've lost some of my interest too for several reasons. The continuous redesign. When I started to implement s/g, I checked what opportunities I have, what the language specification tells, and what others did to achieve a similar goal. Then I implemente