D and the world

eao197 eao197 at intervale.ru
Thu Apr 26 04:54:36 PDT 2007


On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:31:57 +0400, Jari-Matti Mäkelä  
<jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid> wrote:

>> Unfortunately parsing X509 certificates can be very tired task because
>> it is necessary to handle ASN.1 data structures, byte ordering,
>> calculating digital signatures and so on. Do you want to implement MD5,
>> SHA1 or SHA256 via CTFE and templates? :)
>
> No :), I was just pointing out that you can do this with D too. I'm not
> sure how much better Nemerle would do.

Nemerle allows to call code from any library at compile time.

> No, seriously, CTFE is
> something totally different from C++ templates in terms of usability.

Fully agree with you here.

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Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau



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