Re: "Programming in D" book is about 95% translated

2013-11-02 Thread CJS
Thanks for all your hard work, Ali. +1 I eagerly await it becoming a great portal for people wanting to learn more about D. And, hopefully, going on to write high quality libraries I can use. :-)

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

2013-06-30 Thread CJS
Well, it is in the sense that it _is_ a deficiency of built-in AAs for those who want to be able to use different implementations for different use cases, but it's not something that can actually be fixed, and having to use a library solution isn't exactly all that bad anyway, especially when m

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

2013-06-30 Thread CJS
In the talk Andrei seems to mentions that D's associative arrays are lacking in performance somehow. I'm very new to D, but it's not obvious to me what the shortcoming is. I assume it's that for some reason it's hard to specialize associative arrays to specfic types to give increased performanc

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