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reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
D got mentioned as well.

It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, 
and myself live at ProTV's morning news.

Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use 
Google Translate for the text).

http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html


Andrei
Oct 17 2015
next sibling parent Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eg==?= <schuetzm gmx.net> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 D got mentioned as well.

 It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, 
 Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news.

 Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the 
 video (use Google Translate for the text).

 http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html


Wow, you're celebrities :-P This is nice publicity!

Off topic: I was surprised that this website doesn't use any 
diacritics, even though it is completely in Romanian. Is this 
usual practice?
Oct 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply mattcoder <stop spam.com> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 D got mentioned as well.
 ...


Awesome!

Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like 
you Andrei. :)

Matheus.
Oct 17 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:

 On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 D got mentioned as well.
 ...


 Awesome!

 Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you
 Andrei. :)


Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to Romanians. In 
particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- Andrei
Oct 17 2015
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 10/17/2015 9:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:

 On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 D got mentioned as well.
 ...


 Awesome!

 Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you
 Andrei. :)


 Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to Romanians. In
 particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- Andrei



We had a great time, and the Romanian people we met couldn't have been 
nicer to us. Romania is a very beautiful country, and having Andrei as 
our guide was an opportunity not to be missed!
Oct 17 2015
parent Chris <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 18:25:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 10/17/2015 9:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:

 On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 D got mentioned as well.
 ...


 Awesome!

 Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks 
 like you
 Andrei. :)


 Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to 
 Romanians. In
 particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- 
 Andrei



 We had a great time, and the Romanian people we met couldn't 
 have been nicer to us. Romania is a very beautiful country, and 
 having Andrei as our guide was an opportunity not to be missed!


Of course they were nice, after all you had a 'Romanian mobster' 
with you :-)
Oct 17 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 use Google Translate for the text).


Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is famous as 
"novel from Facebook".

:)

Ali
Oct 17 2015
parent reply rumbu <rumbu rumbu.ro> writes:
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 22:39:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 use Google Translate for the text).


 Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is 
 famous as "novel from Facebook".

 :)

 Ali


That's because they don't use diacritics:
romanul = the novel
românul = the Romanian
Oct 19 2015
next sibling parent Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 11:48 +0000, rumbu via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:

 On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 22:39:17 UTC, Ali =C3=87ehreli wrote:

 On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 use Google Translate for the text).


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 Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is=20
 famous as "novel from Facebook".
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 :)
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 Ali


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 That's because they don't use diacritics:
 romanul =3D the novel
 rom=C3=A2nul =3D the Romanian
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So diacritical marks are critical.

I guess this is an other reason all software dealing with text should
use Unicode and not ASCII, EBCDIC,=E2=80=A6


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Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent rumbu <rumbu rumbu.ro> writes:
Here you go:

Few jobs are safe choices for a future career. However, the 
programmer job is guaranteed as being a „gold bracelet”. Who and 
especially how can one innitiate this path? A respected 
specialist from Silicon Valley will answer these questions for us.

His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is known as the "Romanian 
from Facebook". And he came to iLikeIT with Walter Bright and 
Scott Myers. All three are among the world’s brightest minds in 
the software field. Andrei Alexandrescu and Walter Bright have 
been working on D language programming for 9 years and Scott 
Meyers is a famous author of  ++  books (C++ is exactly the 
programming language that D is supposed to replace).

They came to hold a conference in Brasov, then visited Romania 
and finally arrived in the iLikeIT studio. Walter Bright says he 
began programming when he was bored playing games and started to 
look in their code to modify it. Then, he has been working in C++ 
for years, with a continuous desire to improve it - and the 
easiest way to do this was to create his own programming language.

"The easiest way to persuade young people to learn programming is 
to find something that's useful and can guarantee immediate 
success. Therefore, I think they should first take up programming 
on mobile devices, " said Scott Meyers.

You can learn more about programming visiting Code.org - which is 
supported by Facebook - or RosettaCode.org. Both are very good 
for young people who want to initiate a programming career.
Oct 19 2015
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On 17 October 2015 at 11:36, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 D got mentioned as well.

 It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and
 myself live at ProTV's morning news.

 Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use
 Google Translate for the text).


 http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html


 Andrei


Congrats to all.  Shame about the incompetent journalist though.
Oct 19 2015