Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
Java programmers are having to come to terms with this. Python programmers sort of have, except that BDFL has failed to accept the correct end point and still likes loops. Scala has done it all wrong. (Further opinions available on request :-) Could you provide some sample Scala code to

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 18:20:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Well put. My brain still thinks in terms of loops. Sadly, mine also... ;-P

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 02:05:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to learn std.algorithm better. Don't we all.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 1:19 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 02:05:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 08:35:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I've offered a number of times to write a slides-like tutorial if anyone wants to do the slides logic. Nobody came about. Probably nobody will, so I'll have to do it myself. What do you mean by slides logic? What are you

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
Then we need more examples and tutorials. -- Andrei how are these to appear? I've offered a number of times to write a slides-like tutorial if anyone wants to do the slides logic. Nobody came about. Probably nobody will, so I'll have to do it myself. Sorry for my denseness, but what is

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 01:35:47 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We need to do better at empowering people. it's fairly easy: just pay them for the tasks. most people using D to solve *their* task at hand, and if they see something wrong, they report it as an issue (sometimes) and go on with

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Panke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Umm that was me... I don't feel confident enough to write at a Phobos standard yet and might be a little while before I am experienced enough. But I see your point. Fastest way to get better is to submit PRs and get reviewed.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 3:40 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Then we need more examples and tutorials. -- Andrei how are these to appear? I've offered a number of times to write a slides-like tutorial if anyone wants to do the slides logic. Nobody came about. Probably nobody will, so I'll have to do it myself.