Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

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On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts.  I'm not 
>> sure Walter
>> is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda lecture 
>> a bunch of
>> young padewan.  His half-float example was likely too 
>> low-level for that
>> audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or python 
>> and
>> explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more 
>> difficult
>> to write.
>
> From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low 
> level for them.

But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a 
getter function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how 
it's subtle.