Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Wyatt wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 16:55:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of
> >preprocessed C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases substituted
> >with their final target, templates fully expanded, all syntactic
> >sugar lowered, with the original code lines in comments, so that you
> >can see exactly how your code was translated, and whether it matches
> >what you *think* it does.  This would also be invaluable for
> >debugging, as then it will map to the assembly code much better,
> >which will help you trace where things went wrong.
> >
> Considering how useful that sounds, I'm a little surprised this only
> has three votes in three years:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5051
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Heh, I didn't even know it was there! Thanks for the link!


On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:23:45PM +0200, Tofu Ninja wrote:
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> I didn't even know that was out there, I never go to the issue
> tracker, seems unwieldy and unfriendly to me..

I've to admit I don't understand that sentiment at all. It's just
bugzilla, one of the many bug tracking systems out there. You run into a
problem, you post a bug, describe the problem, show the code, show the
results, explain what you expected to see, etc., and the devs set tags
on it to indicate what kind of problem it is, give feedback, discuss the
issue with you, and then post an update when the problem has been
addressed. I don't see what's so unwieldy about it -- that's what you
basically have to do to resolve an issue!


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