Is D the Answer to the One vs. Two Language High ,Performance Computing Dilemma?

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 16:28:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/11/13 8:49 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 15:42:24 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:22:34 -0700
>>> Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://elrond.informatik.tu-freiberg.de/papers/WorldComp2012/PDP3426.pdf
>>>
>>> Holy crap those two-column PDFs are hard to read! Why in the 
>>> world does
>>> academia keep doing that anyway? (Genuine question, not 
>>> rhetoric)
>>>
>>> But the fact that article even exists is really freaking 
>>> awesome. :)
>>
>> My guess is simply because it takes more space, making a 4 
>> page article
>> look like a 7 page ;)
>
> Double columns take less space and are more readable.
>
> Andrei

Printed, for sure. On screen, doubtful.