GCC 4.6

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sun Oct 31 17:41:02 PDT 2010


tls wrote:
> Don Wrote:
> 
>> Simen kjaeraas wrote:
>>> Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can certainly understand the impossibility of actually keeping up with
>>>> bearophile, but I don't think that even he expects that every idea he 
>>>> brings
>>>> up be rushed into D.
>>> Yeah, I always see bearophile's lists as 'maybe some of this could fit in
>>> D at some point'. Well worth having on the list, but not to be regarded as
>>> The Bearer of Absolute Commandments. That said, I fully understand that
>>> Walter could get more tired of it than do I - I don't feel the pressure.
>> I think a lot of the problem is that quite a few of bearophile's post 
>> contain very valuable ideas, which are immediately relevant. But their 
>> impact gets diluted because there's such a constant stream of ideas.
>> Would be great if someone could do a regular "best of bearophile" post <g>.
> 
> What is valueable ideas? Bug reports goto bugzilla. Can some else be immedeately relevant? Long messages with no patches or D language application have no value. D2 and TDPL staple now so no new ideas? And 64-bit support and shared libraries and ARM support becomes before D3? And GUI and IDE? So why we need new ideas before?

Bearophile's posts "I tried to write XXX, and it's hard to do well 
because ..." are excellent. Note that they tend to be more relevant for 
Phobos, than for the compiler.
The links are great, too. There are some of the more obscure languages 
which I'd never have heard of, if not for bearophile.


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