Slides from my ACCU Silicon Valley talk

Yao G. yao.gomez at spam.gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 19:17:57 PST 2010


On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:50:43 -0600, lurker <lurk at lurk.net> wrote:

> Why don't you retard, I mean eternium, I mean iLikeCakes, I mean  
> snk_kid, I mean WeAreAllTreeBear, I mean bearophile's alter ego, go  
> someplace else. Waisting time here is really not worth it. They provide  
> psychiatric treatment in hospitals. I can't prove this conspiracy  
> easily, but I also voted down your stupid remarks there. I hope this  
> teaches you a lesson.
>
> retard Wrote:
>
>> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:56:45 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>
>> > Why do /you/ take it personally?
>>
>> You've misunderstood. I only wish the discussion was a bit more  
>> technical
>> and had less to do with opinions and hype. The reason is, a more
>> technical approach might solve technical problems in more efficient way.
>> But my goal is not to belittle social issues wrt language adoption.
>> Surely I understand reddit isn't lambda-the-ultimate.org and I'm glad
>> that the Go trolls didn't find the thread (yet). I just find this
>> behavior incomprehensible.
>>
>> My personal stance on this matter is that I believe a more consistent  
>> and
>> flexible mechanism for operators would fit D. I'm also a bit more of a
>> fan of C++0x concepts than those contraints shown in the slides. I
>> haven't really thought how it all would work out, but if the atmosphere
>> was more ambitious to this direction, I could participate more. But it
>> seems my vision conflicts badly with what D2 has become.
>>
>> >
>> > On 12/14/10, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:
>> >> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:44:36 -0500, snk_kid wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Gary Whatmore Wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Simen kjaeraas Wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >>>> > >> Compared to the talk at Google, I changed one of the "cool
>> >>>> > >> things" from threading to operator overloading. Didn't manage  
>> to
>> >>>> > >> talk about that - there were a million questions - although I
>> >>>> > >> think it's a great topic.
>> >>>> > >>  http://erdani.com/tdpl/2010-12-08-ACCU.pdf
>> >>>> > >
>> >>>> > >
>> >>>> > > Anyone care to do the honors and post this to reddit  
>> programming?
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Done.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
>> >> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Guys, I made several sockpuppet reddit accounts to mod down the two
>> >>>> guys >criticising this thread. I recommend everyone to help us
>> >>>> improve D's publicity by >ignoring these trolls and voting them  
>> down.
>> >>>> It has worked before, too -- reddit >seems to fold the subthreads
>> >>>> that get too many negative votes. This makes it >look much better
>> >>>> than it is.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  - G.W.
>> >>>
>> >>> That's absolutely pathetic, you're actually doing the community a
>> >>> disservice.
>> >>
>> >> I really don't know what to say. Take a look at
>> >>
>> >> 0 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
>> >> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18swbi
>> >>
>> >> or
>> >>
>> >> -1 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
>> >> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18sz8n
>> >>
>> >> These say nothing against D. Why does one take them personally? They
>> >> are both also highly informative. As far as I can tell, these two
>> >> comments go much deeper in operator semantics theory than the  
>> combined
>> >> effort of 68 other threads by Walter, Andrei et al. For example the
>> >> precedence of operators can get problematic when using several
>> >> libraries from various vendors.
>> >>
>> >> Then you have:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
>> >> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18t1d5
>> >>
>> >> "I really like D (2.0) and I wish it would take off."
>> >>
>> >> 7 points? WTF? What is the value of this reply? It's a purely
>> >> subjective opinion and doesn't necessarily even beg for further
>> >> discussion.
>> >>
>>
>

Oh, retard using sockpuppets. Business as usual. :)

-- 
Yao G.


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