Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread so
On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 22:07:00 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18r7zk/a_mathematician_looks_at_d/ No REPL, I guess we are rubbish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop says almost ALL languages one way or another have it, mentions

Re: Crystal

2013-02-20 Thread Knud Soerensen
On 2013-02-17 07:28, Ary Borenszweig wrote: The goal of this programming language it so be as efficient as possible, but probably it won't be as efficient as C in the general case. But... who knows? Do you know abou julia ? http://julialang.org/

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 09:11:15 UTC, so wrote: On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 22:07:00 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18r7zk/a_mathematician_looks_at_d/ No REPL, I guess we are rubbish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop says

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread so
On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 00:57:31 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote: On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 23:55:46 UTC, bearophile wrote: Most exploratory mathematics systems have a REPL, because for some people and for some kinds of problems, it's much better to have it. It's not for everyone nor for

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread so
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 12:27:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Smalltalk and Lisp were already doing in the late 70's, funny how we ended up exchanging such development environments for primitive languages like C in name of performance, only to try to duplicate them almost 50 years later.

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 14:13:17 UTC, so wrote: On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 12:27:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Smalltalk and Lisp were already doing in the late 70's, funny how we ended up exchanging such development environments for primitive languages like C in name of

Re: A Mathematician looks at D

2013-02-20 Thread so
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 14:29:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Have you ever seen this video of how Lisp machines used to be? http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932 The later model Ivory was even better. All of this in the 80s. I have seen that but too much hardware talk which i have not much

Re: Crystal

2013-02-20 Thread Ary Borenszweig
On 2/20/13 6:28 AM, Knud Soerensen wrote: On 2013-02-17 07:28, Ary Borenszweig wrote: The goal of this programming language it so be as efficient as possible, but probably it won't be as efficient as C in the general case. But... who knows? Do you know abou julia ? http://julialang.org/

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-20 Thread Ary Borenszweig
On 2/19/13 6:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/18/2013 11:17 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-02-18 21:58, Walter Bright wrote: I forgot to include VERSION in the zip file. Its contents are: 2.062 all on one line. I'll fix the packages. Do you have an automated script for packing up the

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-20 Thread Zach the Mystic
On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 06:39:12 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 02/19/2013 09:57 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote: Each developer who works on bugs and enhancements for a given release can keep a private journal, some small text file somewhere. +1 Although, I have seen this done in Bugzilla