D.challenge

[Andrej Mitrovic]

I like this idea. I don't know about showing off "superiority" of D,
but it would be a good way to learn from each other. E.g. one could
submit a solution to a challenge, and then others can refine it to be
safer/faster/better in some regards if they want to, while others
present their solutions that take a different approach.

I know stackoverflow tends to have challenges, but theirs is so often
orriented around the goal of reaching less "lines of code". I'd prefer
if we had different challenges instead of focusing on only one thing.
An example of a challenge would be "here's some unsafe code that does
x and y, the challenge is to make it safe and perform the same
operations" or something like that. Anyway, vote++ from me.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> wrote:
> I propose and hereby petition Walter to set up a sub D newsgroup
> called D.challenge which purpose is to make for a more-specific
> forum (rather than the generic d.D) for topics which are related
> to discussion about "challenging D to do this or that" in the
> context of, say, another programming language or some CS
> problem.
>
> My concept of D.challenge is to try and lift the quality of the
> discussion to a higher plane whereby D can show its superiority
> over other languages (esp. in the Algol and curly-bracey family
> of PLs) and/or otherwise be challenged to prevail or fail in some
> sort of language/CS problem shoot-out.
>
> Recent time ago people (e.g. Nick Sabalausky), and others at
> times before them (e.g. myself/Justin Johansson), have suggested
> that the d.D newsgroup be split up into different subgroups for
> the purpose of focusing discussions towards achieving better
> outcomes but to no avail. <sigh/>
>
> So as a presumptive strike upon this ng, I propose that the
> subgroup D.challenge be instantiated as a place of higher
> ground for (D) language criticisms and shootouts to play
> out.
>
> Who's up to the D.challenge and, if the idea has legs,
> can we agree on some charter for this D subforum?
>
> Of course, at the end of the day, D is Walter Bright's
> baby and naturally it would be up to W to commission
> and sanction "D.challenge".  Still, I think, promoted
> effectively, "D.challenge" could become a good marketing
> vehicle for D.
>
> Cheers,
> Justin Johansson
>