• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Oct 30 2011
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Oct 30 2011
• Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Oct 30 2011
• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Oct 31 2011
• sclytrack <sclytrack fake.com> Oct 30 2011
• deadalnix <deadalnix gmail.com> Oct 30 2011
• so <so so.so> Oct 30 2011
• Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Oct 30 2011
• bcs <bcs example.com> Oct 30 2011

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

I'm probably slightly crazy, but I have this urge to associate the 
digitalmars.D group with some well known group of leaders.

Now I'd guess that still the best-known bunch would still be the allied 
leaders from WW2.

So I guess that whether he likes it or not, I have to cast Walter as 
Churchill - it was he who took on the burden in the first place.

But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and 
so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?

A little relaxation - let's hear your views.

Steve

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

On 10/30/11 1:18 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
 I'm probably slightly crazy, but I have this urge to associate the
 digitalmars.D group with some well known group of leaders.

 Now I'd guess that still the best-known bunch would still be the allied
 leaders from WW2.

 So I guess that whether he likes it or not, I have to cast Walter as
 Churchill - it was he who took on the burden in the first place.

 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and
 so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?


Pliz pliz don't give me Stalin.

Andrei

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 10/30/2011 12:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 On 10/30/11 1:18 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and
 so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?


 Pliz pliz don't give me Stalin.


You can be Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, if you like!

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:13:00 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 10/30/11 1:18 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton
 and so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?


 Pliz pliz don't give me Stalin.
 
 Andrei


Is this like 'anything anything brer fox, but don't throw me in the briar 
patch?'

Steve

sclytrack <sclytrack fake.com> writes:

On 10/30/2011 07:18 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
 I'm probably slightly crazy, but I have this urge to associate the
 digitalmars.D group with some well known group of leaders.

 Now I'd guess that still the best-known bunch would still be the allied
 leaders from WW2.

 So I guess that whether he likes it or not, I have to cast W. as
 Churchill - it was he who took on the burden in the first place.

 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and
 so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?

 A little relaxation - let's hear your views.

 Steve


2012	First integration of the D programming language into several
	Linux distributions
2013	Libraries such as gtkd, qtd, derelict now have their
	packages in the	distro.
2014	The language enters the top 10 in the Tiobe entry. From
	this point forward major companies start thinking of D as
	an option. Facebook starts using D.
2016	"D programming language" second edition by Andrei Alexandrescu
2018 	ISO standardisation of the D programming language.
2020	Department of defence impressed about the D programming language
2020	First Terminator programmed with the D programming language.
2022	Software was programmed so well that it becomes self aware.
	World war begins.
2023	John Connor asks W. to find a weakness in the code.
	W. finds a bug in phobos and fixes it,
	making all Terminators impenetrable to software attacks.
	John Connor goes wtf.
	W. goes "I've got to think about my reputation as a
	programmer"
2024	The machines take over the world.
	W. is Miles Dyson of Cyberdyne Systems.

deadalnix <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:

Le 30/10/2011 20:56, sclytrack a écrit :
 On 10/30/2011 07:18 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
 I'm probably slightly crazy, but I have this urge to associate the
 digitalmars.D group with some well known group of leaders.

 Now I'd guess that still the best-known bunch would still be the allied
 leaders from WW2.

 So I guess that whether he likes it or not, I have to cast W. as
 Churchill - it was he who took on the burden in the first place.

 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and
 so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?

 A little relaxation - let's hear your views.

 Steve


 2012 First integration of the D programming language into several
 Linux distributions


Well this is the case for severals years now in debian. You are already 
late in your prediction ;)

so <so so.so> writes:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:18:55 +0200, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale britseyeview.com> wrote:

 I'm probably slightly crazy, but I have this urge to associate the
 digitalmars.D group with some well known group of leaders.

 Now I'd guess that still the best-known bunch would still be the allied
 leaders from WW2.

 So I guess that whether he likes it or not, I have to cast Walter as
 Churchill - it was he who took on the burden in the first place.

 But the others. Who is Roosevelt, who Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and
 so on? And most provocatively, who is Stalin?

 A little relaxation - let's hear your views.

 Steve


I'd love to take that role, with the sole reason he was a Russian.
If the earth is still in one piece we owe it to them (not just ww2 but  
ever since).
FYI, i am not a Russian.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 10/30/2011 11:18 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
 who is Stalin?


"One pointer bug is a tragedy. A million pointer bugs is a statistic."
    - Joseph Ceelin.

"Are you laboring under the impression that I can compile this code of yours? I 
can't even open the file."
    - Franklin D. Rubysvelt

"Now I want you to remember that no programmer ever made an app work by 
following best practices. He made it work by making the other poor dumb 
programmer work his ass off."
    - George S. Phppon

"The inherent vice of static typing is the unequal sharing of bugs; the
inherent 
virtue of dynamic typing is the equal sharing of crashes."
    - Winston C#arphill

bcs <bcs example.com> writes:

On 10/30/2011 09:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 10/30/2011 11:18 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
 who is Stalin?


 "One pointer bug is a tragedy. A million pointer bugs is a statistic."
 - Joseph Ceelin.

 "Are you laboring under the impression that I can compile this code of
 yours? I can't even open the file."
 - Franklin D. Rubysvelt

 "Now I want you to remember that no programmer ever made an app work by
 following best practices. He made it work by making the other poor dumb
 programmer work his ass off."
 - George S. Phppon

 "The inherent vice of static typing is the unequal sharing of bugs; the
 inherent virtue of dynamic typing is the equal sharing of crashes."
 - Winston C#arphill


Nice :-D