Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

dennis luehring dl.soluz at gmx.net
Thu Oct 31 10:25:14 PDT 2013


Am 31.10.2013 17:44, schrieb Leandro Lucarella:
> dennis luehring, el 31 de October a las 15:28 me escribiste:
>> >>Must always use script_no1 or script_no1.d?
>> >
>> >And maybe one day I have a lot of .py files that I intend to
>> >replace with D scripts TRANSPARENTLY for their user.
>> >
>> >Will D bow at me why I use the .py extension?
>> >
>> >Is D trying to shoot his own foot? It really seems to succeed
>> >quite well.
>> >
>> >My boss is right: is just a toy pretending to be serious.
>>
>> sorry, but this is a very stupid comment:
>>
>> 1. never ever was a language successful(or not) because
>> of its file-extension behavior - maybe in your world
>>
>> 2. i hope there is no other tool around try to find/analyse/whatever
>> real Python programs by using the extension - else you need to
>> change that anyway
>>
>> 3. "My boss is right: is just a toy pretending to be serious" -
>> maybe, maybe not - but not because of your stupid file extension
>> comments
>
> I think even when the wording isn't the best, what he says is true.
> Sometimes is hard to sell the language when things that are so trivial
> and fundamental (as letting file names have arbitrary names, at least
> for scripts) not only are broken, but are justified by the community.
>
> That's definitely not serious and discouraging.
>

sorry for my wording - but pressure sentence like "My boss is right: is 
just a toy pretending to be serious" aren't fair also


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