D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/11/12 1:33 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:18:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> At the same time it clarifies, documents, and statistically verifies
>> that you pass a sorted range. Also, D's binary search works with
>> non-array ranges, but C#'s works only with arrays (which it assumes
>> sorted only by convention).
>>
>> I think we copiously made the right call there.
>>
>> Andrei
>
>
> Right, right, I understand all of that...
>
> But just because the *reasons* are correct that doesn't mean it's more
> intuitive.
>
> ("Intuitive", by definition, means that you have a good chance of
> getting it right without needing to look it up. Binary searching in D
> failed this miserably for me.)

Totally agreed. Intuition is supported by having seen the same or a 
similar pattern before. In this case D takes an unusual approach, which 
I think is better than the established approach.

I have added a reference 
(https://github.com/andralex/phobos/commit/650609be9b4146db3526b50ccfca6776fed73b51) 
such that searching the page std.algorithm for "binary search" will lead 
to the correct reference.


Andrei