Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:06 AM, BLS wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, BLS wrote: >>> >>> Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are >>> excellent. >>> In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + >>> Humor. >>

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread BLS
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, BLS wrote: Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but nevertheless Jes

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread BLS
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0200, BLS wrote: Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,...

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM, BLS wrote: > Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. > In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. > (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but nevertheless Jesse's > book was a kind o

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:50 PM, BCS wrote: > Hello grauzone, > Huh? You can simple cast the interface to an object. >>> That is not safe. not all interface instances are D objects. >>> >> There are people who care for COM and C++ interfaces? COM is Windows >> specific, and C++ vtables ar

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0200, BLS wrote: > >> Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are >> excellent. >> In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + >> Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:39:01 +0200, BLS wrote: > Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are > excellent. > In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + > Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but > nevertheless Jesse's book was a

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread BCS
Hello grauzone, Huh? You can simple cast the interface to an object. That is not safe. not all interface instances are D objects. There are people who care for COM and C++ interfaces? COM is Windows specific, and C++ vtables are... uh, I don't know, platform/architecture/compiler vendor spec

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread BLS
Why not writing a book about D, Jarrett ? The MiniD documents are excellent. In fact you, respective what you write, reminds me to Jesse Liberty + Humor. (well,... maybe C++ in 21 days was already a joke) but nevertheless Jesse's book was a kind of eye opener to me simply because it shows that

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread grauzone
Huh? You can simple cast the interface to an object. That is not safe. not all interface instances are D objects. There are people who care for COM and C++ interfaces? COM is Windows specific, and C++ vtables are... uh, I don't know, platform/architecture/compiler vendor specific? In any c

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread BCS
Hello grauzone, BCS wrote: Well, I can switch the default but, in my experience, most of the time repetition doesn't matter. I also dissagree on the "relatively useless Oh really? I haven't used a graph data structure in some time. Most of them have been trees. And the cases I can think of

Re: Serialization for D. Comments, please!

2009-06-16 Thread grauzone
BCS wrote: Well, I can switch the default but, in my experience, most of the time repetition doesn't matter. I also dissagree on the "relatively useless Oh really? I haven't used a graph data structure in some time. Most of them have been trees. And the cases I can think of, the repeated re

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> Any questions, just ask, please! > > Congrats on finally making a release! The only question I have really, is do > you plan on making some release binaries/libraries? You mentioned about the > tool chain be

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Jarrett Billingsley" wrote in message > news:mailman.264.1245108702.13405.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... >> >> I recommend you read the spec and the language tutorial if you're >> wondering what the language is all about. >> > > W

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Tim Matthews wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> What kind of performance, you ask?  Well, almost every test I've run >> kicks the crap out of Python, and is more in the ballpark of Lua.  The >> only tests that don't quite measure up are those which are GC-hea

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Robert Fraser wrote: >> Any questions, just ask, please! > > Awesome; thanks! How's its standard library file manipulation support and Simple, but you can still do quite a bit. The IO lib: http://www.dsource.org/projects/minid/wiki/StdLib2/IOLib has a good amou

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Clipsham
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: Any questions, just ask, please! Congrats on finally making a release! The only question I have really, is do you plan on making some release binaries/libraries? You mentioned about the tool chain being difficult to use, it might be nice if there were some premade

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Matthews
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: What kind of performance, you ask? Well, almost every test I've run kicks the crap out of Python, and is more in the ballpark of Lua. The only tests that don't quite measure up are those which are GC-heavy. How does it compare to stackless python at doing the tasks

Re: MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jarrett Billingsley" wrote in message news:mailman.264.1245108702.13405.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > > I recommend you read the spec and the language tutorial if you're > wondering what the language is all about. > Where is the language tutorial? > = You're drunk, aren't you? = >