andralex

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1. 121.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   Those are not ideas.
2. 122.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   ... "and if we were still in 1981".
3. 123.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   Well we're not in court. I simply meant to say that it takes longer to write a compiler for a larger language, and that today the D compiler is of good quality.
4. 124.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   without throwing the good parts away.
5. 125.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   D1's compiler was great when D did as little as Go does. Also please stop spreading FUD - the current compiler is eminently usable.
6. 126.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   I disagree. As far as I can tell, Go is a resolute step backwards from C++ in efficiency, modeling power, and generic programming. That's not necessarily bad; simplicity has its virtue, too. The larger problem is that Go fails to avail itse
7. 127.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   Thanks for your kind words. In D's standard library we consistently attempt to define each and every algorithm in its most general form, with opportunistic specializations wherever available. As a trivial example, startsWith works on averag
8. 128.▲
   by andralex 15y ago

   I disagree with such umbrella assessments. Besides, forcing people to use garbage collection is very unlike C.
9. 129.▲
   by andralex 16y ago

   Lysdexia is killing me.
10. 130.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    Could you please clarify that a bit? That would imply that either everybody knows C++ or that I don't. Thanks!
11. 131.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    D rocks as usual: filter!`a % 2 == 0`(iota(1, 5)) (no eager computation, no dynamic allocation)
12. 132.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    Filtering a list of numbers by a criterion is not a standard. It's a simple task. The discussion does have relevance - it shows why Java programmers need to rely so heavily on cookie cutter libraries: writing something from scratch is a hug
13. 133.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    Still terrible.
14. 134.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    That statement takes considerable license with the word "interesting" and practically reverses the meaning of "enforce".
15. 135.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    Please make sure you give the example a close read, as it surprises even experienced Go programmers. Both examples look similar to code in the likes of C, C++, Java, and so on, _except_ the semantics gets radically changed depending on one
16. 136.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    If you like defer's or panic's savings on indentation, you're in desperate need of D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/statement.html#ScopeGuardSt...
17. 137.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    The point of my example was simple - Go's gross mishandling of whitespace is a permanent trap for the unwary and a huge liability for people coming from other languages. When D was nascent, many people proposed various schemes for making se
18. 138.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    Also traffic in the digitalmars.D forum (the main hangout of D developers and users) is roughly twice the traffic on go's mailing list.
19. 139.▲
    by andralex 16y ago

    I'm not so sure about giving credit. Consider: package main import "fmt" func blah() bool { return false } func main() { x := 5 if(blah()) { x++; } fmt.Printf("%d\n", x) } (which prints 5) and the