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

ProgrammingGhost dsioafiseghvfawklncfskzdcf at sdifjsdiovgfdisjcisj.com
Mon Aug 19 15:16:38 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 17:28:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 18 August 2013 18:24, ProgrammingGhost
> <dsioafiseghvfawklncfskzdcf at sdifjsdiovgfdisjcisj.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 18:25:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> For a column of text to be readable it should have not much 
>>> more than 10
>>> words per line. Going beyond that forces eyes to scan too 
>>> jerkily and causes
>>> difficulty in following line breaks.
>>
>>
>> This.
>> Also some people can read a line a second because they read 
>> downward instead
>> of left to right. Although I heard this through hearsay
>
> Probably more like two lines at once, if they are reading a 
> book.
> Reading code? I reckon you can read downwards on that. :)

Is it true? Are you able to read a line (or two) at once?


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