Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Joakim
I was wondering if Walter or Andrei would respond to this thread. On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I agree with your post, I just want to make a couple of minor corrections. What exactly do you agree with Luca about, considering all your "minor corrections" basica

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 29.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Leandro Motta Barros: Wow, looks like the Portuguese-speaking D community is larger than I thought! How many are we here? I counted three or four in the thread! :-) LMB, speaker of Brazilian Portuguese (don't know if this is "weird" or "real" Portuguese :-P) On Sat

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/29/2013 7:56 PM, CJS wrote: Wow. That's interesting reading. Thanks for the history lesson! There are other versions of this history, none of which mention the role ZTC++ played in C++ attaining critical mass, so I like to repeat my version now and then :-)

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/29/2013 9:10 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Even when extremely interesting, I think the ZTC++ history before open source existed or was really viable (the free software movement started in 1983, the FSF was founded in 1985 and the open source definition was made in 1998) is irrelevant in term

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/29/2013 5:08 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The bottom line was the open source movement was not a very significant force in the 1980's when C++ gained traction. Open source really exploded around 2000, along with the inter

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread CJS
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I agree with your post, I just want to make a couple of minor corrections. On 6/27/2013 4:58 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Do you really think C++ took off because there are commercial implementations? I got into the C++ fray in

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Leandro Motta Barros
Wow, looks like the Portuguese-speaking D community is larger than I thought! How many are we here? I counted three or four in the thread! :-) LMB, speaker of Brazilian Portuguese (don't know if this is "weird" or "real" Portuguese :-P) On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Geancarlo Rocha wrote: >

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Geancarlo Rocha
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:47:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Maybe some help from "proper" Portuguese as well? :) -- Paulo Ei gajo, did you mean "weird" portuguese? :P

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread w0rp
Thank you! I consider this a great work of charity. Hopefully this will make it easier to introduce new people to D.

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Walter Bright, el 29 de June a las 01:37 me escribiste: > The bottom line was the open source movement was not a very > significant force in the 1980's when C++ gained traction. Open > source really exploded around 2000, along with the internet. I > wonder if open source perhaps needed the internet

Re: D/Objective-C, extern (Objective-C)

2013-06-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-06-23 22:24, Jacob Carlborg wrote: As some of you might know Michel Fortin created a fork of DMD a couple of years ago which add support for using Objective-C classes and calling Objective-C method. That is making D ABI compatible with Objective-C. I have now updated it to the latest ver

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The bottom line was the open source movement was not a very significant force in the 1980's when C++ gained traction. Open source really exploded around 2000, along with the internet. I wonder if open source perhaps needed the inte

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread MattCodr
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 02:35:27 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: That sounds great! :) Somebody else had started a translation last year to Brazilian Portuguese. I have just emailed the author to see how much they have advanced. Please let me know later how the translation is going, if I can con

Re: Announcing bottom-up-build - a build system for C/C++/D

2013-06-29 Thread Clive Hobson
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 07:54:30 UTC, Graham St Jack wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:59:15 +0200, John Colvin wrote: On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 00:10:37 UTC, Graham St Jack wrote: Having side-by-side comparisons of D against bash scripts and C++ modules had the effect of turning almost al

Bugfix release 0.9.16

2013-06-29 Thread Sönke Ludwig
Am 22.06.2013 13:04, schrieb Sönke Ludwig: > Two additional notes: > > - There is a known bug that causes multiple DUB invocations to be >required until all indirect dependencies are installed (watch out >for a "There are still some actions to perform:" message). The >current git mast

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 29.06.2013 04:35, schrieb Ali Çehreli: On 06/28/2013 07:15 PM, MattCoder wrote: > I'm really thinking about translate to portuguese That sounds great! :) Somebody else had started a translation last year to Brazilian Portuguese. I have just emailed the author to see how much they have advan

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
I agree with your post, I just want to make a couple of minor corrections. On 6/27/2013 4:58 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Do you really think C++ took off because there are commercial implementations? I got into the C++ fray in the 1987-88 time frame. At the time, there was a great debate bet

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:02:25 -0700 schrieb Ali Çehreli : > I have continued with the translation of the book. There are 82 of > the 718 pages still to be translated. (However, I still need to write > the UDA chapter.) > > Ali Nice work! BTW: The link to wiki4d on this page http://ddili.org/ders

Re: Announcing bottom-up-build - a build system for C/C++/D

2013-06-29 Thread Graham St Jack
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:59:15 +0200, John Colvin wrote: > On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 00:10:37 UTC, Graham St Jack wrote: >> Having side-by-side comparisons of D against bash scripts and C++ >> modules had the effect of turning almost all the other team members >> into D advocates. > > Any chance

Re: dlibgit updated to libgit2 v0.19.0

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/28/2013 9:10 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 28 June 2013 at 16:00:57 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Deimos is an overhead which provides no benefits. It was supposed to be used to make discovery easy, but discovery can be done through a wiki, or dlang.org, or an automated process (dub). Deimo

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 88% translated

2013-06-29 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/28/2013 7:35 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Thinking that it is free enough, I had chosen this: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Just let me know if it is limiting in any way. This is just awesome! Thank you, Ali!