Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-20 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 01:37:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Slides: https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf Tangent time. In regards to floating point: Unable to convince people that more precision is worthwhile I'm actually waiting for quad floats to have hardware support.

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-18 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 23:27:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I know. The same thing happened at DConf 2018, where the first morning's sessions were all lost. Does this fall under the category of "things I learned the hard way?" :)

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/djgsdy/d_at_20_hits_and_misses/

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/2019 12:24 PM, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 17:49:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? It's up now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22MM1wc7xQ Slides: https://digitalmars.com/articles/hits.pdf

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 20:56:54 UTC, Dennis wrote: I was surprised by him mentioning that as well. I'm glad it stayed too, since I actually use them. Indeed, me too. And they are definitely still there and I'd be quite sad if they disappeared.

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 20:39:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Huh. Walter says binary literal were removed from D, so how come the following still compiles on git master?? pragma(msg, 0b1000_1000); I was surprised by him mentioning that as well. I'm glad it stayed too, since I

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 07:24:20PM +, Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 17:49:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? > > It's up now! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22MM1wc7xQ Huh. Walter says

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-17 Thread Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 17:49:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? It's up now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22MM1wc7xQ

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-25 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 23:27:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 9/23/2019 3:01 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:55:00PM -0700, Walter Bright via There should be redundant, decoupled camera/operator crew to solve this problem. ;-) I know. The same thing happened at

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/23/2019 3:01 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:55:00PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 9/23/2019 10:49 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? Yes, though sometimes it doesn't due to various failure

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:55:00PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 9/23/2019 10:49 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? > > Yes, though sometimes it doesn't due to various failure modes of the > camera and operator :-)

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/23/2019 12:38 AM, Peter Jacobs wrote: On Sunday, 22 September 2019 at 19:40:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'll be speaking at the Northwest C++ Users's Group on Oct 19. https://nwcpp.org/ That page says "Oct 16th, 2019 at 7:00 PM". Oops, you're right!

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/23/2019 10:49 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: Will this talk be posted somewhere like Youtube afterwards? Yes, though sometimes it doesn't due to various failure modes of the camera and operator :-)

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I'll be speaking at the Northwest C++ Users's Group on Oct 19. > > https://nwcpp.org/ > > Work began on the D programming language 20 years ago. A huge part of > language design is looking at the past

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-23 Thread Peter Jacobs via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 September 2019 at 19:40:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'll be speaking at the Northwest C++ Users's Group on Oct 19. https://nwcpp.org/ That page says "Oct 16th, 2019 at 7:00 PM".

D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-09-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'll be speaking at the Northwest C++ Users's Group on Oct 19. https://nwcpp.org/ Work began on the D programming language 20 years ago. A huge part of language design is looking at the past for what worked and what didn’t, and divining future trajectories so the language can be where the