DCT use cases - draft

David Piepgrass qwertie256 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 17:03:40 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 15:36:59 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 18:33:38 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>> I'm reviewing text right now
> Posted an updated version, but it is still a draft:
>
> http://d-coding.com/2012/05/23/dct-use-cases-revised.html

BTW, have you seen the video by Bret Victor entitled "Inventing 
on Principle"? This should be a use case for DCT:

http://vimeo.com/36579366

The most important part for the average (nongraphical) developer 
is his demo of writing a binary search algorithm. It may be 
difficult to use an ordinary debugger to debug CTFE, template 
overload resolution and "static if" statements, but something 
like Bret's demo, or what the Light Table IDE is supposed to do...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table

...would be perfect for compile-time debugging, and not only 
that, it would also help people write their code in the first 
place, including (obviously) code intended for run-time.

P.S. oh how nice it would be if we could convince anyone to pay 
us to develop these compiler tools... just minimum wage would be 
soooo nice.


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