digitalmars.D - Steve Yegge on D
I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D to my attention, like this one: "C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people trying to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of are Objective C and the D Programming Language. D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project. But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's posts, which were pretty popular back then?
May 22 2014
On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 09:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D to my attention, like this one: "C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people trying to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of are Objective C and the D Programming Language. D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project. But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's posts, which were pretty popular back then?i and almost all of turkish d users / wannabes did learn about d through ali's initiative on a -back then- very popular turkish programming forum. this was way before he started working on his book. :) yet, i did encounter steve's post was through HN much much later. it was 2009 or 2010 i guess.
May 22 2014
"Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 05:31:48 UTC, Mengu wrote:On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 09:52:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:I discovered D by reading in a Linux magazine that Fedora XYZ was shipping with the dmd compiler. And I agree with this comment "But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise." Programming is like everything else. People are used to some shit they don't even like, but they're not willing to change it, and they even find excuses for the shit they hate as soon as someone wants to change it. The reason: they're used to it. Change is bad, change means learning new things, giving up old patterns, old habits, admitting that one was ... err .... wrong.I was reading Brad Roberts' bio before his upcoming talk today, where he mentioned that he first heard of D because of blog posts by Steve Yegge, when I remembered that it was likely one of Steve Yegge's posts almost a decade ago that first brought D to my attention, like this one: "C++ does need to get replaced someday. It's just horrid, and everyone knows it. However, there aren't very many people trying to replace it, either. The only contenders I'm aware of are Objective C and the D Programming Language. D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However, C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company or open-source project. But nobody ever accuses programmers of being wise." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html I wonder, how many others first heard of D through Steve's posts, which were pretty popular back then?i and almost all of turkish d users / wannabes did learn about d through ali's initiative on a -back then- very popular turkish programming forum. this was way before he started working on his book. :) yet, i did encounter steve's post was through HN much much later. it was 2009 or 2010 i guess.
May 23 2014