the best language I have ever met(?)

[Igor Shirkalin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 18 November 2016 at 19:43:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I was a little bit afraid of my missunderstanding in terms of 
>> sentiments.  You've got me right (I don't quite feel the 
>> meaning of that in these non-cyrillic letters:). But what I 
>> understand is the path you have walked and what I have in my 
>> mind.
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> Yes, I meant 'sentiments' as in опыта, not as in 
> сентметальность. :-)
I used to mean 'sentiments' as "сентиметальность", but "опыт - 
сын ошибок трудных" (Пушкин) is what realy in behind :)


>> Simple example about D: I spent two hours to write a line 
>> (borrowed from Python), related with lazy calculations, but 
>> finally I got it with deep great thinking, and it was like 
>> understanding of Moon alienation from Earth.

> Great!  Would you like to share the code snippet?

Sure. We have an array of uint. And we need to get a string of 
these values in hex separated with ','. In Python it looks like
<code>

      ', '.join(map(hex, array))
</code>


array.map!(v=>"%x".format(v)).join(", ")
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>> What is your using of D?
>> For me it is tool to develope other tools.
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> Sadly, I have not been able to use D in a professional 
> capacity. My coworkers are very much invested into C/C++ and 
> have a very high level of skepticism to anything else, in 
> addition to resistance to adding new toolchains (much less 
> languages) to the current projects.  So my use of D has mainly 
> been in personal projects.  I do contribute to Phobos (the 
> standard library) every now and then, though.  It's my way of 
> "contributing to the cause" in the hopes that one day D may be 
> more widespread and accepted by the general programming 
> community.
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