Re: D in Academia

2012-03-08 Thread Brian Rogoff
On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 19:02:23 UTC, Chuck Allison wrote: FYI: TDPL is a required text for CS 4450, Analysis of Programming Languages, at Utah Valley University starting Fall 2012. We'll study ML and D (and Prolog if time allows). Slightly off topic digression: Which ML? I ask as an O

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 6: Concurrent Garbage Collection for D by Leandro Lucarella

2013-05-27 Thread Brian Rogoff
On Friday, 24 May 2013 at 19:44:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, May 24, 2013 20:30:54 Juan Manuel Cabo wrote: I'd like to know if there is interest in a precise garbage collector. There is interest in it, and Rainer Schütze did a talk on it at DConf. At the current pace (assuming t

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Brian Rogoff
On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 00:45:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei What's going to be the bounty for getting a precise GC in D? Is it even fair to say there's a single bounty hun

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

2014-03-30 Thread Brian Rogoff
On Monday, 31 March 2014 at 03:25:37 UTC, justme wrote: On Monday, 31 March 2014 at 00:09:34 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I mean, if someone wants to have fun, go ahead, but putting community effort on that where there are so many places that are more important to put the effort on seems a

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-28 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 23:07:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Some of the inconsistencies you mentioned and Brian mentioned in his talk are actually the result of consistencies. I know this is a bit of a difficult thing to wrap one's head around, but having something be mathematically consis

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

2014-05-29 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:52:53 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:12:10 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: And no, it doesn't matter how the current frontend implements it, because you can argue next to any decisions this way. When issues like this come up the spec is almo

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:46:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I don't know, but the only language I've used with no static types that made me comfortable was Common Lisp. That was a long time ago, but I think it was the ease of manually testing the code in a REPL that did it. Obviously today I'd

Re: DConf Day 1 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-07-02 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 20:39:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/27/2014 12:53 PM, Dicebot wrote: http://youtu.be/TNvUIWFy02I Ack, need to work on my posture :-( I just got a chance to watch this, and one thing that I found more unsettling than your posture was your assertion that destru