Re: blast from the (recent) past

2009-11-01 Thread bearophile
Justin Johansson: > "Beautiful Code"? "Beautiful Code", it's not the best computer book, and some of the chapters are not so interesting, but overall is good enough: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046 Programming Pearls, I'd like several more books like this: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/c

Re: blast from the (recent) past

2009-11-01 Thread Justin Johansson
bearophile Wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu: > > > (I'm not 100% convinced it's ethical to give the second link here, > > because there's clearly an implied invitation to upvote. Please advise.) > > I think it's OK. You are not asking people to up-vote, and people here are > free to down-vote too

Re: blast from the (recent) past

2009-11-01 Thread bearophile
Andrei Alexandrescu: > (I'm not 100% convinced it's ethical to give the second link here, > because there's clearly an implied invitation to upvote. Please advise.) I think it's OK. You are not asking people to up-vote, and people here are free to down-vote too if they don't like. Showing your

blast from the (recent) past

2009-10-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9zqj0/the_state_of_d_programming_is_this_situation/ Also, there's a much less popular discussion about the Thermopylae excerpt: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9z41o/andrei_alexandrescus_book_about_the_d_programming/ (I'm not 100% convin