• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Jan 24 2010
• "John D" <jdean googling.com> Jan 30 2010
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Jan 30 2010
• "John D" <jdean googling.com> Jan 30 2010
• Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> Jan 31 2010
• Bane <branimir.milosavljevic gmail.com> Feb 01 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short & safe & easy
program in D2 (using the concurrency features being developed)?
http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html

(In computer language history it's happened often that a worse language (let's
say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one (let's say D2), so there's
no guarantee that D2 will beat Go even if D2 is "better". But being about as
good or better is not bad anyway :-) ).

Bye,
bearophile

"John D" <jdean googling.com> writes:

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:hjh61f$2c62$1 digitalmars.com...
 Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short & 
 safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
 developed)?
 http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html

 (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse language 
 (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one ).


I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People say 
that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better OSes are 
possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't used the new 
Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming anyway, so it's 
underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no comparable competitor. On the 
flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the best one 
out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I use it but I 
liked using it better before I knew so much about it. 

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

John D wrote:
 "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote in message 
 news:hjh61f$2c62$1 digitalmars.com...
 Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short &
  safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
 developed)? 
 http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html
 
 
 (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse
 language (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one
 ).
 


 I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People
 say that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better
 OSes are possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't
 used the new Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming
 anyway, so it's underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no
 comparable competitor.
 
 On the flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the
 best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I
 use it but I liked using it better before I knew so much about it.


As Napoleon said - every soldier carries a marshal's baton :o).

Andrei

"John D" <jdean googling.com> writes:

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:hk1ksq$153t$1 digitalmars.com...
 John D wrote:
 "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote in message 
 news:hjh61f$2c62$1 digitalmars.com...
 Recently I've seen this, is it possible to write an equally short &
  safe & easy program in D2 (using the concurrency features being 
 developed)? 
 http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-bittorrent-client-in-go.html


 (In computer language history it's happened often that a worse
 language (let's say Go) becomes more widespread than a "better" one
 ).


 I'm not sure that is true. Actually, I think it is not true. People
 say that about Windows all the time too. While I KNOW much better
 OSes are possible, there really is (or was all this time, I haven't
 used the new Macs but I wouldn't want to do Unix-style programming
 anyway, so it's underpinnings do not appeal to me, FWIW) no
 comparable competitor.

 On the flipside, I think C++ is a crappy language, but it's still the
 best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) and I
 use it but I liked using it better before I knew so much about it.


 As Napoleon said - every soldier carries a marshal's baton :o).


I can look that up, but it's easier if I just ask you to explain your 
curt comment and how it relates as a response to my post. Pray tell! 

Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:

On 01/30/2010 11:46 PM, John D wrote:
 best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) <<<<<<










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegone_effect

Bane <branimir.milosavljevic gmail.com> writes:

Ellery Newcomer Wrote:

 On 01/30/2010 11:46 PM, John D wrote:
 best one out there (IMO, until I implement my own, of course) <<<<<<










 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegone_effect


Very interesting and funny article.