Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> D is an extremely powerful language, but when I read complaints and sighs about
>> other languages, few seem to know that these problems are solved with D.
>> Essentially, we have a marketing problem.
>> One great way to address it is by writing articles about various aspects of D
>> and how they solve problems, like
>>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb14j/compiletime_function_execution_in_d/
>>   which was well received on reddit.
>> Anyone have good ideas on topics for D articles? And anyone want to stand up and
>> write an article?
>> They don't have to be comprehensive articles (though of course those are
>> better), even blog entries will do.
> 
> This probably won't be replied to because I'm starting a new sub-thread in a
> mature discussion, but I wonder if we could write about the advantages and
> disadvantages of duck typing vs. static typing, comparing Python vs. Java at
> first, then bring D into the picture to show how, to a greater extent than C++
> templates or C#/Java generics, it solves may of the problems of static typing
> without introducing the pitfalls of duck typing.
> 
> Here's a simple example of something that would be awkward to impossible to do
> efficiently in any other language:
> 
> /**Finds the largest element present in any of the ranges passed in.\
>  */
> CommonType!(staticMap!(ElementType, T)) largestElement(T...)(T args) {
>     // Quick and dirty impl ignoring error checking:
>     typeof(return) ret = args[0].front();
> 
>     foreach(arg; args) {
>         foreach(elem; arg) {
>             ret = max(elem, ret);
>         }
>     }
> 
>     return ret;
> }
> 
> Do this in C++ -> FAIL because there are no variadics.  (Yes, C++1x will have
> them, but I might die of old age by the time C++1x exists.)
> 
> Do this in any dynamic language -> FAIL because looping is so slow that you might
> die of old age before it executes.  Besides, who wants to do computationally
> intensive, multithreaded work in a dynamic language?
> 
	In python: max (map (max, args)) should have reasonable
performances and is *much* more elegant...

		Jerome
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