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reply Raph <encom79 hotmail.com> writes:
Hi

I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for design
patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code in D. There is


I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a good idea
to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?
Feb 26 2009
next sibling parent reply aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> writes:
Raph pisze:

 Hi
 
 I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for design
patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code in D. There is

 
 I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a good
idea to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?
 


Some time ago I put few design patterns in D to Wikipedia (I think one 
of them was visitor pattern). Unfortunately  later someone removed them, 
with comment that they add nothing interesting to pattern description.

So if you just put there just plain design pattern it will be probably 
removed later.

To succeed with this you will need to put into Wikipedia something 
really special :-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)
Feb 26 2009
parent Leandro Lucarella <llucax gmail.com> writes:
aarti_pl, el 26 de febrero a las 20:27 me escribiste:

 Raph pisze:

Hi
I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for design
patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code in D. There is
a lot 

I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a good idea
to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?


 
 Some time ago I put few design patterns in D to Wikipedia (I think one of them
was visitor pattern). Unfortunately  later someone removed them, with comment
that 
 they add nothing interesting to pattern description.
 
 So if you just put there just plain design pattern it will be probably removed
later.
 
 To succeed with this you will need to put into Wikipedia something really
special :-)


Maybe add a new pattern and implement it in D, this way the
D implementation should stay and the new added implementations in other
languages should be removed ;)

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Mar 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> writes:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:16:55 -0500, Raph wrote:


 Hi
 
 I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for design
 patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code in D. There

 
 I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a good
 idea to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?


The thing is, Wikipedia is not the platform for promoting specific
'brands'. The purpose is more geared towards promoting ideas, concepts, and
facts. Providing alternate examples of design patterns in D, in articles
about patterns, is not the best use of Wikipedia. 

The places to but D code examples, are in articles about D, or where there
are no existing examples for a concept or technique. I'm pretty sure that
if you enter D examples where similar examples in other languages already
exist, they will be promptly removed. Also, C is still the lingua-franca of
the programming community, so examples in *any* other language are usually
subject to 'special' editoral scrutiny.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell
Feb 26 2009
parent reply Georg Wrede <georg.wrede iki.fi> writes:
Derek Parnell wrote:

 On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:16:55 -0500, Raph wrote:

 I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for design
 patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code in D. There


 I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a good
 idea to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?


 
 The thing is, Wikipedia is not the platform for promoting specific
 'brands'. The purpose is more geared towards promoting ideas, concepts, and
 facts. Providing alternate examples of design patterns in D, in articles
 about patterns, is not the best use of Wikipedia. 
 
 The places to but D code examples, are in articles about D, or where there
 are no existing examples for a concept or technique. I'm pretty sure that
 if you enter D examples where similar examples in other languages already
 exist, they will be promptly removed. Also, C is still the lingua-franca of
 the programming community, so examples in *any* other language are usually
 subject to 'special' editoral scrutiny.


While you are correct, it shouldn't discourage us from trying.

And, as you say, pages where there isn't yet any C or Java would be the 
best places to start.

As aarti_pl pointed out, it might happen that some D code gets removed, 

This only serves to show that proponents of other languages have this 
same idea of languages competing for publicity. This should make us even 
more determined!
Mar 01 2009
parent Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Georg Wrede wrote:

 Derek Parnell wrote:

 The thing is, Wikipedia is not the platform for promoting specific
 'brands'. The purpose is more geared towards promoting ideas,
 concepts, and
 facts. Providing alternate examples of design patterns in D, in articles
 about patterns, is not the best use of Wikipedia.
 The places to but D code examples, are in articles about D, or where
 there
 are no existing examples for a concept or technique. I'm pretty sure that
 if you enter D examples where similar examples in other languages already
 exist, they will be promptly removed. Also, C is still the
 lingua-franca of
 the programming community, so examples in *any* other language are
 usually
 subject to 'special' editoral scrutiny.


 
 While you are correct, it shouldn't discourage us from trying.
 
 And, as you say, pages where there isn't yet any C or Java would be the
 best places to start.
 
 As aarti_pl pointed out, it might happen that some D code gets removed,

 This only serves to show that proponents of other languages have this
 same idea of languages competing for publicity. This should make us even
 more determined!


You don't win fans by going around shouting in people's faces, nor by
artificially inflating your own importance.  Don't forget that Wikipedia
is meant as a reference.  As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, D
is a nothing to the general programming public.  They have examples in
C, Java, etc. because those languages are widely used.  D isn't.

It'd be like adding examples in INTERCAL.  They'd remove it because it's
not a "big," popular language.

Now, getting more projects out there written in D is another matter
entirely...

  -- Daniel
Mar 01 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent Georg Wrede <georg.wrede iki.fi> writes:
Raph wrote:

 Hi
 
 I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for
 design patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo

 
 I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a
 good idea to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?


Well, well!

As it happens, I just started another thread with almost the exact same 
idea!
Mar 01 2009
prev sibling parent "Simen Kjaeraas" <simen.kjaras gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:16:55 +0100, Raph <encom79 hotmail.com> wrote:


 Hi

 I appreciate a lot this brand new language. Today I have searched for  
 design patterns in Wikipedia, I was surprised by the lack of demo code  


 I started to write demo code for singleton and visitor. It could be a  
 good idea to continue and make D famous, isnt it ?


This list may be a good start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Applied_arts_and_sciences/Computer_science,_computing,_and_Internet#Algorithms

These are algorithms currently not documented on Wikipedia, and they might as
well be implemented in D as any other language.

--
Simen
Mar 02 2009