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Which is why I was curious. The final paragraph of the article "Certainly, D still faces a long road to success. But this new language has already come further than most." caught my attention.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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There are links in the article to the author's book on Amazon and from that you can find out that D1 (or D) has been superseded by D2 which includes "ranges" which are like iterators but different.
This page[^] is probably a much better starting point.
However - any language that includes imaginary numbers [^]as a basic data type is pretty wacky
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I had some interest back about ten years ago, but C# suits me better. I think its target audience is C++ developers, so it's unlikely to take off.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Its just a stepping stone for other abilities that will be places into older languages such as C++
C# was thought to replace C++, and so was a lot of other potential languages, but that didn't happen even when the desire to program in the language dipped down, since 2010 C++ has shown such advancement that people have gone back to using that language.
If you have the mind power for it - learn it - adapt your styles to it and move on
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Nice.
There are new languages all the time. Wired wrote a small piece: looked interesting; didn't recall D before that. Oh well: another waste of time. Stick to the money makers.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: Stick to the money makers
Shake 'em if you got 'em.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I recall Dr. Dobbs Journal pimping Db (D-flat) a loooonnngggg time ago. Is this a relative?
Will Rogers never met me.
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According to the original BCPL sequence, the next big programming language should be P. (try saying P++ several times fast)
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An acquaintance of mine keeps trying it (and Go) at least one a year before getting fed up with one thing or another and going back to Python.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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D is not a very good grade.
C is better and C++ even better.
I don't want to bost but I once got an A.
A for Assemble on a BBC Micro, but have now sliped down to a grade B. (B for Basic) or is it a grade VB (Visual Basic)
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That article is for non-programmers and/or fools ...
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So, no opinion then...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Christian Aerobics[^]
Isn't that Anne Hegerty* in the before picture of Bernadette?
One for UK quiz enthusiasts there.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Oh look! More weight-loss spam. Must report it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sorry, forgot the link to buy it[^]
Only $11.99 (and $22 shipping)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Isn't that Anne Hegerty Nah, not pretty enough.
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Thanks. I just wasted quite some time on the flashback site. I'll keep it in my records for time wasters !
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Anne Hegarty is a friend of mine, so I'll forward it to her!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Not as good a Prancercise![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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"bet he doesn't have the guts to do that again"
My son told it to me, blame him!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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My son's version was:
Q: What's the last thing tht goes through a fly's mind as it hits your windscreen (windshield for foreigners)?
A: Its a***hole (a**hole for foreigners).
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Its a***hole (a**hole for foreigners).
+5 if you typed the asterixes!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Mike Hankey wrote: My son
So, he was genetically predisposed to tell bad jokes, I blame you!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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