D on GDC announced on reddit

[simendsjo]

On 10.10.2011 22:35, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:11:45 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Trass3r" <un at known.com> wrote in message
>> news:op.v2ze74ma3ncmek at enigma...
>>>> Now D is also quite cool, I would just like for the language compilers
>>>> to be a bit more stable.
>>>
>>> They have been vastly improving, really.
>>>
>>>> Currently I do have more sucess proposing C++11 based solutions as
>>>> Go or
>>>> D based ones, on the type of corporate environment I work in.
>>>
>>> That's not D's or Go's fault. Most guys especially in bigger
>>> corporations
>>> are plain ignorant and wear blinders.
>>> Strangely that even applies to universities.
>>
>> Not real surprising. Universities can be *enormously* ignorant and
>> conceited. (Community colleges too...my god, some of the flaming egos and
>> politics around there are mind-boggling, especially considering it's
>> *just*
>> a CC...)
>>
>>> Hell, they didn't even know about clang even though they were
>>> progressive
>>> enough to use C++0x.
>>
>> I once had a university professor who openly admitted C was the only
>> language he knew - and yet he didn't even understand how C's
>> null-terminated
>> strings work. So he didn't really even know that one language.
>
> I helped a friend with some assignments from a professor who wrote
> absolutely unreadable code, and who taught students to use int[101]
> to allocate 100 ints, because he couldn't grasp indexing from 0 to
> 99.
>
> I also really liked the assignment where we were told of a mythical
> processor that would multiply 2 NxN matrices in O(N^4) time.
>

Wow.. Looking forward to start my CS degree next year... :)