Data Frames in D - let's not wait for linear algebra; useful today in finance and Internet of Things

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 16:41:04 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 15:33 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn
> wrote:
> […lots of agreed uncontentious stuff :-) …]
>
>
>> You write as if Christensen's book "The Innovator's Dilemma" 
>> had never been written, and nor had it been a standard 
>> textbook in business schools for some years.  You may have 
>> good arguments as to why he is wrong, or why it doesn't apply 
>> to D, but you haven't set them out, as far as I am aware.
>
>
> In the post-production world as I know it (Nuke, etc.) The 
> C++/Python
> combination has never failed to be adequate to the innovation 
> demanded
> by film makers. In the image processing world the C++/Lua 
> combination
> has never failed to adapt to the innovation needed by photograph
> tinkerers. My point was really that the customers have never 
> found an
> innovative need that the extant platforms couldn't provide. I 
> felt this
> was somewhat different to the Christensen argument. On the 
> other hand, I
> may have missed the point…

No matter how plugged in a person may be, it is impossible to be 
aware of everything that is going on, especially in exactly the 
kind of domains Christensen talks about - ones that aren't by any 
standard important in a spot sense to the bigger picture, but 
that critically provide a quiet relatively uncontested niche for 
the seeds of something to unfold until it is ready to break out 
into the broader world.

So I think the point is that one shouldn't be bothered one jot by 
the disinclination of the people you know to want to use D, 
particularly since you are so plugged in to all these other 
worlds (and being an insider in a sense that matters today has an 
opportunity cost because it means one is not spending time and 
attention speaking to non insiders as much at that instant).  New 
growth will come from the fringes.

I think one should be very worried if the Adam Ruppe of the world 
would start to say D sucks - nice idea, but just not expressive 
enough for me, and I am switching back to Ruby and Python.  
Because that would indicate a loss of ground in the home niche.  
But somehow I don't think so...!  And meantime quietly things 
continue to develop.

What matters is not the challenges one faces, but how one deals 
with them.  An outpouring of frustration in recent days, and the 
result is we are going to get better docs, better examples, and 
who knows what else.  That's a sign of health.

Will post code I have in a few days.


Laeeth.