Re: [MLUG] D language

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is my comment:

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DocComments/Lex

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

> I hadn't heard of D until I received the message below.  Any of you guys 
> using it yet?
>
> Mike
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:47:24 -0500
> From: Dan Grigsby
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [OT] D - via "Do they still teach C" - was Re: [ruby.mn] string
>    manipulation
>
> I know this is ground covered elsewhere [1], but I do appreciate having 
> learned pointer programming with C.
>
> That said, only yesterday I was looking at the D programming language [2]. D 
> is kinda like C++ done right.
>
> It has a C-like grammar, garbage collection, and OO constructs that look more 
> like what you'd expect in a modern languages.  It produces binary code -- no 
> vm -- and works with existing c-libraries, so you can use all of the system 
> libs for close-to-the-metal programming.
>
> It meets most of Steve Yegge's criteria for the "Next Big Language" [3] 
> (excludes dynamic typing), even though he really means JavaScript.
>
> [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
> [2] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/overview.html
> [3] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
>
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