Re: Patterns of Human Error - my presentation at the DC ACM

2011-05-06 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Nice slides, very simple and elegant. This reminds me of when I started with D. I found a lot of these 'details' unload quite some burden I had with C++ and made programming that much more enjoyable.

Re: D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

2011-01-25 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Nick Sabalausky wrote: David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote in message news:ihkub8$1ia4$1...@digitalmars.com... On 1/24/11 10:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Does Git really not have real revision/changeset numbers? [.] Not that I've actually used DVCSes much yet, but my understanding

Re: D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

2011-01-25 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Nick Sabalausky wrote: Lutger Blijdestijn lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com wrote in message news:ihn21d$2esd$1...@digitalmars.com... Nick Sabalausky wrote: David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote in message news:ihkub8$1ia4$1...@digitalmars.com... On 1/24/11 10:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote

Re: D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

2011-01-25 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Nick Sabalausky wrote: ... You can't expect other people to piece together how the revision number has come to be, that is extremely brittle. They don't need to piece it together because you can just say... ...which repository you're talking about. ...which repository you're talking

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread 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 try to make a D-related submission and of

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Daniel Gibson wrote: ... You can never be sure with patents, as someone else in another thread already pointed out: it's virtually impossible to write a piece of software that doesn't infringe patents. Yes, it's like bugs: you can tell when you found one, but never know your software is

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread 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 are just too many software patents to check, even for big companies).

Re: std.xml2 candidate

2010-12-12 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/11/10 7:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/11/10 7:23 AM, Michael Rynn wrote: Availability of Updated xml parser for D2, organised very presumptively as std.xml2 [snip] Great! Do you plan to submit this to Phobos? One more thing - with XML parsers,

Re: std.xml2 candidate

2010-12-12 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
so wrote: If you take into account that tango's xml parser does less validation and that it is up to par with the fastest C++ parsers out there, I suggest lowering the bar a little bit at first. For example, outperforming libxml2. There is no reason a D code should perform worse than C++

Re: Build a D project is now easy

2010-11-23 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Leandro Lucarella wrote: Russel Winder, el 22 de noviembre a las 19:10 me escribiste: On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 16:41 +, Manfred_Nowak wrote: Russel Winder wrote: but it has come to the end of its useful life why. I ask because I just realized, that llvm still uses it. For

Re: d.vim and Fused

2010-11-18 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Russel Winder wrote: ... What this email is really about though is to ask: where is the best place to keep a permanent, i.e. not just on a mailing list, record of all the D editor support stuff. As well as Emacs and Vim there must be support for TextMate, Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, .

Re: Utah Valley University teaches D (using TDPL)

2010-11-17 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
bearophile wrote: Lutger Blijdestijn: Actually the unix convention is to give exit code 0 as an indicator of success, so there is feedback. It is very usable for scripting. But currently something like that is not present in the D unittest system. rdmd --main -unittest somemodule.d

Re: DDT 0.4.0 released (formerly Mmrnmhrm)

2010-11-17 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Looking pretty good so far!