Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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).
>>
> 	Please define "reasonable performance"...
> 
>> I see such examples as simple illustrations "look, if you give up X, you
>> gain Y!" - just coming without mentioning X.
>>
> 	Precisely my point :) If you look at the OP message, what it boils
> down to is: "look if you do this the D way in a dynamic language
> it'll be dead slow" - just coming without mentioning that the D way
> isn't the right way in those languages...
> 
PS: I should perhaps mention that I like D. I just think that
spreading FUD about other languages is not the right way to promote D...

		Jerome
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