Andrei writes "The Case for D"

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sam Hu wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> 
>> Robert Fraser wrote:
>>> Tim Matthews wrote:
>>>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Last but definitely not least, two windowing libraries
>>>>> complete the language's offering quite spectacularly. The
>>>>> mature library DWT is a direct port of Java's SWT. A newer
>>>>> development is that the immensely popular Qt Software
>>>>> windowing library has recently released a D binding (in alpha
>>>>> as of this writing)."
>>>>> 
>>>>> In other words, so long and thanks for all the fish: GDC and
>>>>> wxD ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> --anders
>>>> About the gui toolkits: Never mind the fact that GTKD has been
>>>> working stable for a long time unlike the QT port. Best to
>>>> include both to keep wars at bay in my opinion like kde vs
>>>> gnome.
>>> You might want to toss in DFL, too. It doesn't compile on the
>>> latest anything without (a little) work, but it's a stable GUI
>>> library with a graphical designer that was designed from the
>>> ground up with D in mind.
>> This is excellent information, you may want to post it to reddit
>> too. Speaking of reddit, I noticed there are forty-something
>> negative votes but only one negative comment. From direct
>> experience (sigh) I know that people who think an article sucks
>> usually are also very inclined to voice their opinion (even more so
>> than people who think an article was good!) There must be a study
>> in behavioral psych somewhere. So these votes seem to reflect a
>> prior dislike to anything D and the immediate negative voting of
>> anything related to it. I wonder how such this could be addressed.
>> 
>> 
>> Andrei
> To Andrei,
> 
> Last time I translated your post *RFC on range design for D2*
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=12922
> 
> 
> into Chinese but not getting your permission.Below is the link:
> 
> http://dlang.group.javaeye.com/group/topic/10615
> 
> I am so sorry for making such a big mistake.Just let me know if there
> is anything I can do for this mistake.Thanks.

I hereby punish you to translate The Case For D as well :o).

No matter, really. That was just a temporary document that I deleted in 
the meantime.

> Btw.I( and other D fans in China) am planning to translate Bartosz's
> * Rice free* series into Chinese also if the original links are
> reachable in my region someday( they are not reachable right at this
> moment  not knowing why).Can I get your permission also?

Rice free? I don't think that title would be very successful in China. 
You'd need to ask Bartosz for permission.


Shie shie,

Andrei