Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 9 14:46:28 PDT 2016


On 6/9/2016 1:38 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 18:02:05 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> You are a scientist, so try to measure. GC generally improves throughput at
>> the cost of latency.
>
> As a side note, I always found it funny that programmers call themselves
> "computer scientists" while many write a lot of their programs without tests.

A scientist is someone who does research to make discoveries, while an engineer 
puts scientific discoveries to work.

Programming is a mix of engineering and craft. There are people who do research 
into programming theory, and those are computer scientists. I'm not one of them. 
Andrei is.


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