Breaking backwards compatiblity

Simen Kjærås simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 20:10:20 PDT 2012


On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:50:49 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Simen Kjærås" <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:op.wa28iobk0gpyof at biotronic.lan...
>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:07:06 +0100, Walter Bright
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/11/2012 12:32 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I'm convinced that colleges in general produce very bad programmers.  
>>>> The
>>>> good programmers who have degrees, for the most part (I'm sure there  
>>>> are
>>>> rare exceptions), are the ones who learned on their own, not in a
>>>> classroom.
>>>
>>> Often the best programmers seem to have physics degrees!
>>>
>>
>> Eugh. Physicist programmers tend to use one-letter variable names in my
>> experience. Makes for... interesting reading of their code.
>
> D is great for physics programming. Now you can have much, much more  
> than 26
> variables :)

True, though mostly, you'd just change to using greek letters, right?

Finally we can use θ for angles, alias ulong ℕ...


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