Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/07/2010 04:35 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 06/07/2010 12:57 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>>> 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...
>>
>> I very much doubt that.
>>
> 	What do you doubt? That it has reasonable performance or that it is
> more elegant?

That it has reasonable performance. Then, there are a number of things 
that can't be compared such as figuring out the tightest static types, 
something that Python doesn't worry about (at the expense of precision 
and performance).

I see such examples as simple illustrations "look, if you give up X, you 
gain Y!" - just coming without mentioning X.


Andrei