D - ANSI D
- Kublai Kahn <Kublai_member pathlink.com> Feb 18 2003
- "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Feb 18 2003
- Kublai Kahn <Kublai_member pathlink.com> Feb 18 2003
- "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Feb 18 2003
- Ilya Minkov <midiclub 8ung.at> Feb 20 2003
- Kublai Kahn <Kublai_member pathlink.com> Feb 20 2003
Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D? There are two views of language standardization. One that it is a good thing and one that it is bad. Perl will never be standardized as ISO/ANSI Perl. Is it better to have a nonstandardized version where a group defines the language or a committee as in Cobol?
Feb 18 2003
"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
Yes, if D gets popular enough.
Feb 18 2003
In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says..."Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
Yes, if D gets popular enough.
But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?
Feb 18 2003
"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2ufn4$15ue$1 digitaldaemon.com...In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says..."Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
There does come a time for that.
Feb 18 2003
I guess someday the language would get out of control by itself, provided it's popular enough. Then ANSIfication would be the way to go. Walter wrote:"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2ufn4$15ue$1 digitaldaemon.com...In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says..."Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
Yes, if D gets popular enough.
But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?
There does come a time for that.
Feb 20 2003
Kublai Kahn <Kublai_member pathlink.com> Look at what a big job Perl 6 is turning into. They figured it would take a few weeks or months. It is almost out of control. It will be 2 to 3 years before Perl 6 is released. Larry Wall has a lot of design decisions to make about regular expressions and syntax and a new Perl "given" switch statement. Perl 5 was already a big language with a lot of different features and several ways of doing things. These include built in regular expression, hashes, arrays and objects. The language design for Perl 6 was separated from the Parrot Virtual Machine to simplify development. Larry Wall can devote his time to flushing out the details of Perl 6 instead of having to partition his time between development and programming. The Perl 5 parser is extremely complicated and difficult to extend so a new virtual machine Parrot is being written to replace it. Perl has always tried to be a maximal feature language. In article <b33p5b$5iu$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...I guess someday the language would get out of control by itself, provided it's popular enough. Then ANSIfication would be the way to go. Walter wrote:"Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2ufn4$15ue$1 digitaldaemon.com...In article <b2u0c1$mlr$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says..."Kublai Kahn" <Kublai_member pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b2tsrj$jd0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Will there ever be an ISO or ANSI version of D?
Yes, if D gets popular enough.
But wouldn't that be giving up some language control?
There does come a time for that.
Feb 20 2003