Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Walter Bright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 23 de abril a las 06:30 me escribiste:
>> 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.
> 
> Is very easy to make naive programs that have serious performance problems
> because of the GC. You have to be almost an expert to tune that programs
> to make the run fast. Ask bearophile and dschima for examples =)


Relatively inexperienced D programmers should be able to apply straightforward 
solutions to common programming problems and expect correct behavior and 
reasonably acceptable performance.

I doubt we will always be able to achieve that, but we should always be working 
towards it.