Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/23/2010 08:30 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Clemens wrote:
>> Ah, ok. As bearophile noted, that person seems to have not much
>> experience
>> with Haskell, to put it politely. Obviously I didn't see the
>> presentation and
>> don't want to judge too harshly, but if your summary is an accurate
>> representation of its take-away points, that reeks badly of intellectual
>> dishonesty and FUD. See my link.
>>
>> Or put another way, would you like someone who has never used D before
>> to do
>> a live presentation on it and come to premature conclusions like this?
>
>
> D is meant to give good results even for people who are not experts at
> it. If someone wrote a straightforward D app and it gave such poor
> results, I'd take it (and have taken such) as a problem that D needs to
> improve upon.
>
> For example, Andrei has expended a great deal of effort on making the
> naive use of stdio also the fast way.

And the correct way.

Andrei