On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 22:09:57 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 19:55:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
Great read Ron. Can I ask which town in Newfoundland it was
where you stayed back in 1985?
Sure. I was in St. Lawrence on the Burin Peninsula. Do you know
it?
Unfortunat
On 2019-01-19 23:13, Ron Tarrant wrote:
Wow. That's a lot to think about. Thanks, Jacob. Looks like I've got my
weekend reading all lined up. :)
:)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 22:15:50 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
It looks like the best one is the "Getting Started" page on
code.dlang.org:
https://dub.pm/getting_started
Thanks, Paul. I'll take a look.
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 22:07:47 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:59:59 UTC, JN wrote:
Just add a line in your dub.json file and you have the
library. Need to upgrade to newer version? Just change the
version in dub.json file. Need to download the problem from
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 20:30:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Regarding Dub.
[stuff deleted]
[1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
[2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions
[3] https://travis-ci.com/
[4] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release
[5
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 20:12:04 UTC, Jon Degenhardt
wrote:
Nicely done. Very enjoyable, thanks for publishing this!
Thanks, Jon. Glad you enjoyed it.
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:48:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Very nice indeed! Welcome aboard, Ron!
Thanks, H.S.
I used to remember most of the opcodes by heart... though
nowadays that memory has mostly faded away.
I used to write 6502 in my head while riding my bike to school,
then write
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 19:55:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
Great read Ron. Can I ask which town in Newfoundland it was
where you stayed back in 1985?
Sure. I was in St. Lawrence on the Burin Peninsula. Do you know
it?
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:59:59 UTC, JN wrote:
Just add a line in your dub.json file and you have the library.
Need to upgrade to newer version? Just change the version in
dub.json file. Need to download the problem from scratch? No
problem, dub can use the json file to download all the
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 17:06:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I had to use my parents' TV in the living room :) And I was
made to learn typing before I could play games on it, so
cruel...
LOL!
(Ahem) I feel your pain, sir.
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 14:29:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Not long ago, in my retrospective on the D Blog in 2018, I
invited folks to write about their first impressions of D. Ron
Tarrant, who you may have seen in the Lear forum, answered the
call. The result is the latest post on the blog
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:41:14PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 2019-01-18 21:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > Haha, that's just an old example from back in the bad ole days where
> > NTP syncing is rare, and everyone's PC is slightly off anywhere from
> > seconds to mi
On 2019-01-18 21:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Haha, that's just an old example from back in the bad ole days where NTP
syncing is rare, and everyone's PC is slightly off anywhere from seconds
to minutes (or if it's really badly-managed, hours, or maybe the wrong
timezone or whatever).
I had one of th
On 2019-01-18 15:29, Mike Parker wrote:
Not long ago, in my retrospective on the D Blog in 2018, I invited folks
to write about their first impressions of D. Ron Tarrant, who you may
have seen in the Lear forum, answered the call. The result is the latest
post on the blog, the first guest post
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:03:09PM +, Neia Neutuladh via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:43:58 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > (1) it often builds unnecessarily -- `touch source.d` and it
> > rebuilds source.d even though the contents haven't changed; and
>
> Timestamp-bas
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:43:58 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> (1) it often builds unnecessarily -- `touch source.d` and it rebuilds
> source.d even though the contents haven't changed; and
Timestamp-based change detection is simple and cheap. If your filesystem
supports a revision id for each file, tha
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 16:42:15 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
Just to set the record straight, I only had access to that
Coleco Adam for the few weeks I was in that Newfoundland
outport. Within a year, I too had my very own C-64 plugged into
a monster Zenith console job. Remember those? I don'
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 06:59:59PM +, JN via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
[...]
> The trick with makefiles is that they work well for a single
> developer, or a single project, but become an issue when dealing with
> multiple libraries, each one coming with its own makefile (if you're
> lucky,
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:48:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I'm also not a big fan of dub, but I'm in the minority around
these parts. Having grown up on makefiles and dealt with them
in a large project at my day job, I've developed a great
distaste for them, and nowadays the standard build
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:06:54PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 1/18/19 11:42 AM, Ron Tarrant wrote:
[...]
> > Just to set the record straight, I only had access to that Coleco
> > Adam for the few weeks I was in that Newfoundland outport. Within a
> > year, I
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:29:14PM +, Mike Parker via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
[...]
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2019/01/18/d-lighted-im-sure/
[...]
Very nice indeed! Welcome aboard, Ron!
And wow... 6502? That's what I grew up on too! I used to remember most
of the opcodes b
On 1/18/19 11:42 AM, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 15:08:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Nice read! And welcome to Ron! I too, started with BASIC, but on a
Commodore 64 :)
Thanks, Steve.
Just to set the record straight, I only had access to that Coleco Adam
for the f
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 15:08:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Nice read! And welcome to Ron! I too, started with BASIC, but
on a Commodore 64 :)
-Steve
Thanks, Steve.
Just to set the record straight, I only had access to that Coleco
Adam for the few weeks I was in that Newfoundla
On 1/18/19 9:29 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
Not long ago, in my retrospective on the D Blog in 2018, I invited folks
to write about their first impressions of D. Ron Tarrant, who you may
have seen in the Lear forum, answered the call. The result is the latest
post on the blog, the first guest post o
Not long ago, in my retrospective on the D Blog in 2018, I
invited folks to write about their first impressions of D. Ron
Tarrant, who you may have seen in the Lear forum, answered the
call. The result is the latest post on the blog, the first guest
post of 2019. Thanks, Ron!
As a reminder, I
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