Is D the Answer to the One vs. Two Language High ,Performance Computing Dilemma?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/11/13 8:49 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 15:42:24 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:22:34 -0700
>> Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://elrond.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/papers/WorldComp2012/PDP3426.pdf
>>
>> Holy crap those two-column PDFs are hard to read! Why in the world does
>> academia keep doing that anyway? (Genuine question, not rhetoric)
>>
>> But the fact that article even exists is really freaking awesome. :)
>
> My guess is simply because it takes more space, making a 4 page article
> look like a 7 page ;)

Double columns take less space and are more readable.

Andrei