If you have to learn just one programming language

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon May 31 21:11:26 PDT 2010


BCS wrote:
> Hello retard,
> 
>> Mon, 31 May 2010 18:23:18 +0200, Pelle wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/31/2010 05:43 PM, retard wrote:
>>>
>>>> For example the lambda syntax is terribly verbose in D compared to
>>>> Scala or Haskell.
>>>>
>>> But way better than in java, C, C++ or almost any other language.
>>>
>> So basically if I'm offering you $100000 and $10, you're taking $10
>> because it's more than $1 or $2 or any value between $3 and $4. Great
>> logic.
>>
> 
> I'd say it's more like me taking $10 over $10.14 because I don't have to 
> deal with the coins.
> 
>>>> D&  DMD are unstable, badly specified, buggy and most dsource
>>>> projects are deprecated (D1) or dead.
>>>>
>>> True, but it's not like D isn't moving anywhere in that aspect.
>>>
>> Not sure about that. I'm still waiting for proper .stringof
>> documentation
> 
> I see a lot of fruit that's a lot lower and juicer than that. For that 
> matter, you can read the source, figure it out your self and write the 
> docs for it. Heck, even if you just slapped together some notes and 
> posted them in an bugzilla ticket it would be something.
> 
>> and a formal spec for SafeD (I really want to know what
>> it is exactly and what it is not)..
>>
> 
> Um, it's easy to figure out of something is or isn't allowed in safeD; 
> write a program and try it.
> 
That doesn't work. Pointer arithmetic is forbidden in safeD, but 
currently accepted by the compiler.
But don't worry about this stuff, it should be fixed fairly soon.



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