digitalmars.D.announce - Toiby; #14 an rising
- BCS <BCS pathlink.com> Nov 05 2007
- Alix Pexton <_a_l_i_x_._p_e_x_t_o_n_ _g_m_a_i_l_._c_o_m_> Nov 05 2007
- Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Nov 05 2007
- BCS <BCS pathlink.com> Nov 05 2007
- "Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow gmail.com> Nov 05 2007
- Denton Cockburn <diboss hotmail.com> Nov 05 2007
- Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> Nov 05 2007
- "Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow gmail.com> Nov 05 2007
- JEMandy <nospam nospam.com> Nov 07 2007
- Sascha Katzner <sorry.no spam.invalid> Nov 07 2007
- Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> Nov 07 2007
- Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> Nov 07 2007
- 0ffh <spam frankhirsch.net> Nov 07 2007
Alix Pexton <_a_l_i_x_._p_e_x_t_o_n_ _g_m_a_i_l_._c_o_m_> BCS wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
I think that there is something else note worthy on the Tiobe news this month, scroll down the index index page to the November News flash and you'ss see this tidbit...In 2 months time we will announce the "programming language of 2007". Last years winner Ruby is favourite to win the title again closely followed by D and C#.
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Nov 05 2007
BCS wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
# 12 actually. --bb
Nov 05 2007
Bill Baxter wrote:BCS wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
# 12 actually. --bb
sorry x-)
Nov 05 2007
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:55:13 +0200, BCS <BCS pathlink.com> wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
Delphi also got ahead of D again. -- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:thecybershadow gmail.com
Nov 05 2007
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:55:13 -0800, BCS wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
Should jump much higher when D 2.0 is final and stable with the spec is published. A proper book would also help. I know Walter's too busy to do that though. Might even start stealing a few Lispers. :)
Nov 05 2007
BCS wrote:http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html
It's interesting; if you look at the deltas between now and exactly one year ago, the only language with a faster growth than D (+1.02%) is Ruby (+1.37%). And check out these deltas: C -3.23% C++ -2.03% Perl -1.49% C# +0.89% Visual Basic +0.76% JavaScript +0.62% Python +0.59% Clearly, people are no longer listening to Dijkstra :P Visual Basic has actually gone up over C++, which is frankly kinda scary. As usual, Tiobe, grain of salt; but it's interesting none the less. -- Daniel
Nov 05 2007
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:25:56 +0200, Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> wrote:Visual Basic has actually gone up over C++, which is frankly kinda scary.
VB will be wherever newbies roam. I guess more people are getting into programming lately, which is good (assuming they don't stick with VB for too long). -- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:thecybershadow gmail.com
Nov 05 2007
Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> wrote in news:fgojbo$2ip8$1 digitalmars.com:BCS wrote: Clearly, people are no longer listening to Dijkstra :P
Please relieve me of my ignorance: What did did Dijkstra say that is being ignored here?
Nov 07 2007
JEMandy wrote:Please relieve me of my ignorance: What did did Dijkstra say that is being ignored here?
He didn't like the "goto" statement, he considers it bad for programmers and the programs they wrote... and since Basic is THE "goto"-language per se. ;-)
Nov 07 2007
Sascha Katzner escribió:JEMandy wrote:Please relieve me of my ignorance: What did did Dijkstra say that is being ignored here?
He didn't like the "goto" statement, he considers it bad for programmers and the programs they wrote... and since Basic is THE "goto"-language per se. ;-)
Well, if you use D, you are using a compiler which Dijkstra woudln't have liked (the way it is programmed). :-)
Nov 07 2007
JEMandy wrote:Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> wrote in news:fgojbo$2ip8$1 digitalmars.com:BCS wrote: Clearly, people are no longer listening to Dijkstra :P
Please relieve me of my ignorance: What did did Dijkstra say that is being ignored here?
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Nov 07 2007
Daniel Keep wrote:"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
There is surely something to this - but then BASIC in those days was a completely different language from BASIC today. Todays BASICs are more like sloppy Pascal dialects. Still bad enough, though. Regards, Frank
Nov 07 2007