D on GDC announced on reddit

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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.
> 
> -- 
>    Simen

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