Re: [Phoronix] Digital Mars Is Wanting To Merge D Into GCC

2010-11-22 Thread Daniel Gibson
Jesse Phillips schrieb: Looks like Phoronix posted an article about D moving into GCC a couple weeks ago. So hopefully things are going well on this. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc2Ng Phoronix took notice of D? Expect monthly articles revealing "performance drawbacks"

Re: Build a D project is now easy

2010-11-23 Thread Daniel Gibson
bioinfornatics schrieb: hello community, I have start a project for generate easily a build system for D project. Currently in d world everyone use his own build system for build a new project with a new system is a bit hard for everyone, for debug same thing. My tool generate makefile system

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 20.01.2011 19:58, schrieb Lutger Blijdestijn: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/callforpapers/ One topic of interest is Open Source Programming Languages. If someone could explain to me the various subtle nuances of what an open source programming language is, I'll tr

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 20.01.2011 21:15, schrieb Lutger Blijdestijn: Daniel Gibson wrote: ... So yes, the point that D may cause less trouble than Java/.net can be made, but you probably shouldn't claim that D doesn't infringe any patents, because you can't possibly know (nobody can, there ar

Re: DVM - D Version Manager

2011-01-26 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 26.01.2011 09:36, schrieb Jacob Carlborg: > On 2011-01-25 23:59, Jesse Phillips wrote: >> Jacob Carlborg Wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I guess you're right, didn't think there were a lot people who >>> used other shells. Since I almost know nothing about shell scripting and >>> even less about non-bourne

Re: DVM - D Version Manager

2011-01-27 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 27.01.2011 13:05, schrieb Jacob Carlborg: On 2011-01-26 23:46, Michel Fortin wrote: On 2011-01-26 15:24:56 -0500, Jacob Carlborg said: /bin/sh is not a symlink on Mac OS X. I guess I just can try to use sh instead of bash. But should it output this? $ /bin/sh --version GNU bash, version

Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 31.01.2011 11:25, schrieb foobar: Adam Ruppe Wrote: In the other newsgroup, I've been talking about a little web news program I've been writing as a spinoff of the potential new homepage idea. It's to the point where it is usuable, but still kinda buggy: http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/

Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 31.01.2011 13:19, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: "foobar" wrote in message news:ii62n0$1r3i$1...@digitalmars.com... 1. common human markup such as: _foo_ (underline), *foo* (bold) etc, I've never been much of a fan of that. Actually that's one of the things I didn't like about Thunderbird when

Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 03.02.2011 22:00, schrieb Lars T. Kyllingstad: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:16:58 +, Adam Ruppe wrote: > >> Eric Poggel wrote: >>> I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open >>> source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? >> >> I *really* dislike tree style inter

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 18.02.2011 16:41, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: On 2/18/11 9:42 AM, dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Wow.

Re: dmd 1.067 and 2.052 release

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 21.02.2011 01:51, schrieb Graham St Jack: Fantastic news! Well done once again to the whole team. Now that the 64-bit bugbear is in the bag (along with a big pile of bugs), what is next? Is there a list somewhere detailing the planned language/toolchain changes that will make it into D2? Are

Re: TDPL Amazon rank at 4-months high

2011-03-01 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 02.03.2011 01:26, schrieb Jordi Sayol: > Al 01/03/11 21:57, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> Yah, there are many variables. Add to those many handling details that >>> influence the process. TDPL has certainly sold more than 1830 copies by now >>> (= the collect

Re: [OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

2011-04-02 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 03.04.2011 00:22, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: > Nick Sabalausky: >> Heh, yup. Because after all, VRML just went over sooo well. > > Yeah... "what's old is new again" fits so well to web 2.0. > > WebGL gets more minus points too since its on shaky technical > grounds too. It isn't very 'webby' if yo

Re: [OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

2011-04-02 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 03.04.2011 01:31, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: > Daniel Gibson wrote: >> or did you like writing a different version of >> your websites for each browser? > > I've never found that to be actually necessary. Worst problems I > ever had as a developer were actually

Re: [OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

2011-04-03 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 03.04.2011 08:59, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > "Daniel Gibson" wrote in message > news:in889j$knb$1...@digitalmars.com... >> Am 03.04.2011 00:22, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: >>> Nick Sabalausky: >>>> Heh, yup. Because after all, VRML just went over sooo wel

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha: > On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: >>> On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. Andrei >>> >>> Where? >> >> Where could it ever b

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 05:05, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: > On 4/10/11, dsimcha wrote: >> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s >>> Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a >>> Wikipedia page dedicated entirely to the topic! >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 06:04, schrieb Jonathan M Davis: >> Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha: >>> On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: > On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. >

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 11.04.2011 01:51, schrieb dsimcha: > On 4/10/2011 7:29 PM, Don wrote: >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: >> On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Re: [Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

2011-04-10 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.04.2011 00:27, schrieb Torarin: > 2011/4/8 dsimcha : >> Here's a first draft of an article on D's approaches to concurrency and >> parallelism for D's article contest. It's not an official submission yet, >> but feedback would be appreciated. >> >> http://davesdprogramming.wordpress.com/2011

Re: Goldie Parsing System v0.4 Released - Now for D2

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 15.04.2011 09:50, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > Since you're talking about C, you'll probably want to run your original C > code through the "preprocess-only" option of a real C compiler. (I *think* > DMC will do that.) Then parse the resulting "preprocessed C" files with > Goldie. (Although if

Re: Goldie Parsing System v0.4 Released - Now for D2

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 15.04.2011 10:13, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > "Daniel Gibson" wrote in message > news:io8u12$132q$1...@digitalmars.com... >> Am 15.04.2011 09:50, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: >>> Since you're talking about C, you'll probably want to run your original C >

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.2.0

2011-05-18 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 18.05.2011 14:21, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 03:15:50 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> But the bottom line seems to be: Linux is in a bigger DLL hell than >> windows >> has ever been, and I don't think *anyone* actually knows how to do it. > > This is one of the sid

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.2.0

2011-05-18 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 18.05.2011 17:20, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 10:47:02 -0400, Daniel Gibson > wrote: > >> Am 18.05.2011 14:21, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: > >>> At my previous company, we integrated software from pure software >>> companies i

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.2.0

2011-05-18 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 18.05.2011 21:22, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:51:18 -0400, Robert Clipsham > wrote: > >> On 18/05/2011 16:20, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >>> Printer support is woefully missing. My 2-year old printer still isn't >>> supported on Linux. >> >> Now this is beyond me. E

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 23.05.2011 01:29, schrieb Ali Çehreli: > On 05/21/2011 11:12 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: > >> I started writing what I hoped would turn into a fairly >> complete book. > > Thank you for doing this! :) > >> This book is intended to teach programming from the ground >> up. > > I have some experi

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 23.05.2011 20:51, schrieb bearophile: > Russel Winder: > >> Uuuurrr... this is just wrong on so many levels. To avoid writing an >> 10,000 word essay, I'll just stick to: Python and Groovy have proven to >> be excellent languages for teaching first year undergraduates and >> adults. > > I ha

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 23.05.2011 21:53, schrieb bearophile: > Daniel Gibson: > >>> - I appreciate Python significant indentation a lot, but I've seen it cause >>> problems to some students. >> >> What kind of problems? (related to tabs vs spaces?) > > Tabs Vs

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 23.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: > bearophile wrote: >> For them spaces are nothing, they don't even see them, so for them >> braces are probably better > > This is the biggest thing that trips me up with Python. Something > indenting inward is pretty easy to see, but going outward is o

Re: Learning With D

2011-05-23 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 24.05.2011 01:59, schrieb bearophile: > Daniel Gibson: > >> OTOH python teaches to indent your code properly which enhances >> readability, so maybe it's a good thing to learn right from the beginning. >> I've had students producing working code (Java and S

Re: DMD/Objective-C Alpha 1

2011-06-02 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 02.06.2011 17:12, schrieb Robert Clipsham: > On 02/06/2011 16:09, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2011-06-02 15:21, Robert Clipsham wrote: >>> The lack of line numbers in debug info on OS X is something that's >>> really annoying me, I may look into this in the future should I get >>> chance - if so

Re: TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

2011-06-21 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright: > On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. > > Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and > vice versa. (I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-06-21 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 21.06.2011 06:14, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: > This is a translation project of Charles Petzold's Programming Windows > (5th edition) book code samples. > > Currently over 120 code samples have been translated into D, with only > a few modules remaining. > > Everything else you need to know is i

Re: DVM Windows Beta #2 - Up To Date With v0.2.0

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 04.07.2011 03:01, schrieb bearophile: > Andrej Mitrovic Wrote: > >> Is there a limit to how far DMD releases are supported? > > You are able to find very old versions of DMD too, all the way to the latest > one. This is the support. > I think he was talking about how far DVM supports old DM

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.07.2011 12:19, schrieb Walter Bright: On 7/10/2011 1:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote: Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter. The introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.3.0 (including support for Windows)

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 01.08.2011 22:53, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: I know this is maybe obvious for linux geeks, but your shell command won't work like this: wget -O dvm https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/downloads/dvm-0.3.0-linux-32 && chmod +x dvm&& ./dvm install dvm Because you have to call this before executing dv