London D Programmers MeetUp

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

done.  and gave him headsup too.  is your email no
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if not what should the first part be?  or you can email me at 
myfirstname at myfirstname.com


On Friday, 13 February 2015 at 07:31:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 22:28:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services 
>>> company gave an
>>> account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something 
>>> quickly, intending to
>>> rewrite it later in a more conventional language.  The 
>>> prototype went straight
>>> into production, and they are happy with it.  The C interop 
>>> was important for
>>> them to have made this possible.
>>>
>>> It was interesting, because it is a serious company where 
>>> people don't by any
>>> means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at 
>>> variance with the "I
>>> am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" 
>>> narrative, and also
>>> because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort 
>>> of second wave early
>>> adopter one wants to have.
>>>
>>> (I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this 
>>> as vague as
>>> possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might 
>>> not want the details
>>> of what they do being public).
>>
>> I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study 
>> presentation at Dconf 2015. Can someone please forward this to 
>> him, or put him in contact with myself or Andrei?
>
> I will dig his card out unless Kingsley gets there first.  (Let 
> me know if so).  Laeeth