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reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/
Oct 03 2009
next sibling parent reply bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Walter Bright:


 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/


Very nice. Indeed if you come from experience of C, D allows you to write
programs in a much faster way. (But C isn't the only language around today, you




Currently, it's conservative, but the D programming language semantics are
designed to allow for a precise one.<


Maybe if there are unions it can't be fully precise. I think precision is a
matter of degree, so you can build a quite precise GC.

Bye,
bearophile
Oct 03 2009
parent reply language_fan <somewhere internet.com.invalid> writes:
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:35:39 -0400, bearophile wrote:


 Walter Bright:
 

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/




i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/

 
 Very nice. Indeed if you come from experience of C, D allows you to
 write programs in a much faster way. (But C isn't the only language



It is funny to note that every time these new fans of D come from the C / 
C++ / Java community. It is well known that those languages have long 
been in a stagnant stage and if the developers just had courage to try 
modern languages, *any* language would have a fresh feel. It is really no 
wonder that those languages are starting to feel irritating in daily 
work. I have never heard of a Eiffel / Ada / Erlang / Lisp / Clojure / 
Scala / Haskell / SML / OCaml / Nemerle /<insert your favorite statically 
typed compiled language here> zealot who suddenly found the enlightenment 
in D.
Oct 03 2009
next sibling parent Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:
language_fan Wrote:


 On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:35:39 -0400, bearophile wrote:
 

 Walter Bright:
 

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/




 i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/

 
 Very nice. Indeed if you come from experience of C, D allows you to
 write programs in a much faster way. (But C isn't the only language



 
 It is funny to note that every time these new fans of D come from the C / 
 C++ / Java community. It is well known that those languages have long 
 been in a stagnant stage and if the developers just had courage to try 
 modern languages, *any* language would have a fresh feel. It is really no 
 wonder that those languages are starting to feel irritating in daily 
 work. I have never heard of a Eiffel / Ada / Erlang / Lisp / Clojure / 
 Scala / Haskell / SML / OCaml / Nemerle /<insert your favorite statically 
 typed compiled language here> zealot who suddenly found the enlightenment 
 in D.



What, "... zealot who suddenly found the enlightenment in D"? (Rhetorical
question).

Since when was zealotry (1) regarded as a virtue? (Another rhetorical question).

Now, meaning to be neither rhetorical nor tautologous, my question is:

Was this phrase meant to be oxymoronic or a contradiction in terms (2), or
was it an accidental misuse of the noun (zealot)?


(1) Noun * S: (n) fanaticism, fanatism, zealotry (excessive intolerance of
opposing views)

      http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=zealotry


(2) Although a true oxymoron is “something that is surprisingly true, a
paradox”,
   modern usage has brought a common misunderstanding as being near synonymous
with
   a contradiction. 

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron  (The full Wikipedia article is
quite an amusing read).

-- Justin Johansson
Oct 03 2009
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
language_fan wrote:

 It is funny to note that every time these new fans of D come from the C / 
 C++ / Java community. It is well known that those languages have long 
 been in a stagnant stage and if the developers just had courage to try 
 modern languages, *any* language would have a fresh feel. It is really no 
 wonder that those languages are starting to feel irritating in daily 
 work. I have never heard of a Eiffel / Ada / Erlang / Lisp / Clojure / 
 Scala / Haskell / SML / OCaml / Nemerle /<insert your favorite statically 
 typed compiled language here> zealot who suddenly found the enlightenment 
 in D.


D isn't meant as a language to enlighten people, it isn't a religion, 
it's a language meant to get things done with.
Oct 03 2009
parent reply digited <digited yandex.ru> writes:
Walter Bright Wrote:


 D isn't meant as a language to enlighten people, it isn't a religion, 
 it's a language meant to get things done with.


Amen that holy true!
Oct 05 2009
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
digited wrote:

 Walter Bright Wrote:
 

 D isn't meant as a language to enlighten people, it isn't a religion, 
 it's a language meant to get things done with.


 
 Amen that holy true!


All hail D!
Oct 05 2009
parent digited <digited yandex.ru> writes:
Walter Bright Wrote:


 digited wrote:

 Walter Bright Wrote:
 

 D isn't meant as a language to enlighten people, it isn't a religion, 
 it's a language meant to get things done with.


 
 Amen that holy true!


 
 All hail D!


o_O

now THAT is a provocation!
Oct 06 2009
prev sibling parent reply Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:
Walter Bright Wrote:


 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/


Don't know why you bother with Reddit, Walter.  Going by a lot of the replies
there, its a case of
pearls before swine.

Cheers
-- Justin Johansson
Oct 03 2009
parent downs <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:
Justin Johansson wrote:

 Walter Bright Wrote:
 

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/


 
 Don't know why you bother with Reddit, Walter.  Going by a lot of the replies
there, its a case of
 pearls before swine.
 
 Cheers
 -- Justin Johansson
 


Swine are smart.
Oct 03 2009