• Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> Apr 29 2006
• Dave <Dave_member pathlink.com> Apr 29 2006
• "Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> Apr 29 2006
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> May 09 2006
• "charles" <admin tdjonline.com> Apr 29 2006
• Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeirosATgmail SPAM.com> May 03 2006

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/interview/d_programming_language.html
http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/opinion/d_programming_language.html

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Dave <Dave_member pathlink.com> writes:

Walter Bright wrote:
 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/interview/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/opinion/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 
 Bitwise Magazine
     www.bitwisemag.com
 Dark Neon Ltd.


Wow - a great set of articles!

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

Pardon me, but why is there a screenshot of a C program and compiling it 
with DMC on the D page?

It has the caption:

"Ah! The good old days! A DOS box, a text editor and a C compiler (here, 
in fact, a D compiler) …it takes me back. I got quite misty eyed over 
this example."

Also, the program "hello.c" does not look exactly... bug-proof.  Perhaps 
I'm mistaken.

Oh, well.

-[Unknown]


 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/interview/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/opinion/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 
 Bitwise Magazine
     www.bitwisemag.com
 Dark Neon Ltd.

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:

 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/opinion/d_progr
mming_language.html 




 Pardon me, but why is there a screenshot of a C program and compiling it 
 with DMC on the D page?


It's been changed into "hello.d" now.

However, it's still using some questionable practices, that is:

int main(char[][] args)
{
     printf("hello world\n");
     printf("args.length = %d\n", args.length);
     for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
         printf("args[%d] = '%s'\n", i, cast(char *)args[i]);
     return 0;
}

Both printf and that cast are just "crashes waiting to happen",
and we also have our friend "the missing: import std.c.stdio;"...


However, if you convert it over to something more in D - like:

import std.stdio;

void main(char[][] args)
{
     writefln("hello world");
     writef("args.length = ", args.length, "\n");
     foreach (int i, char[] arg; args)
         writefln("args[%d] = '%s'", i ,arg);
}

Then you must also make sure to include instructions to set the
console/terminal over to UTF-8, or run into the famous i18n "bug":

# ./hello abc åäö 
                               hello world
args.length = 3
args[0] = './hello'
args[1] = 'abc'
args[2] = 'Error: 4invalid UTF-8 sequence

But I don't think that is "reason enough" to stick with old printf,
just because that it works with the legacy encodings out of the box.


Still, it would be nice if we could get all these "introductory" items
addressed - before there are any newcomers to D that are scared off ?

Hope the new sites will help with this.
--anders

"charles" <admin tdjonline.com> writes:

Good interview !

"Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:e30atd$1atq$1 digitaldaemon.com...


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Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeirosATgmail SPAM.com> writes:

Walter Bright wrote:
 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/interview/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/d/opinion/d_progr
mming_language.html 
 
 
 Bitwise Magazine
     www.bitwisemag.com
 Dark Neon Ltd.


"D is going wherever the D community wants it to go." - Walter
Whoa, so that mean we're finally going to have proper bools in D? *g*

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D