• QUS (14/14) Aug 06 2003 Finally -
• Matthew Wilson (8/22) Aug 06 2003 And
• Mike Wynn (16/24) Aug 07 2003 I think the reverse ordering of arrays declares should be fully reversed...
• Walter (9/21) Aug 06 2003 And

"QUS" <qus go2.pl> writes:

Finally -

After months of thinking about something better than C++, without
*.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by
contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading or
templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident! And
to make this post short:

THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources to
D. :-)

And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate programmers
like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate
language!

Cheers,

QUS

"Matthew Wilson" <dmd synesis.com.au> writes:

"QUS" <qus go2.pl> wrote in message news:bgqs4c$ldk$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Finally -

 After months of thinking about something better than C++, without
 *.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by
 contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading

or
 templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident!

And
 to make this post short:

 THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

It's getting pretty close, though it's still not there yet. Templates and
modules are the areas still needing significant attention.

 So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources

to
 D. :-)

 And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate

programmers
 like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate
 language!

We're trying. :)


 Cheers,

 QUS

"Mike Wynn" <mike.wynn l8night.co.uk> writes:

 THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

 It's getting pretty close, though it's still not there yet. Templates and
 modules are the areas still needing significant attention.

 So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources

 to
 D. :-)


I think the reverse ordering of arrays declares should be fully reversed to
avoid confusion for Java programmers.

int[4][5]  b; should be [5][4]int;
so the as you can use the indexes b[0..4][0..3];
of course this effects * too :( which I gues would have to be reversed too
*int  ip; // pointer to int
*[4]*[5]*int pp; // pointer to and array of 4 pointers to array of 5
pointers to ints

again I would vote of a 'var' or 'my' keyword to releave parser preasure to
allows this;

var * int p; // instead of int * p;
this also makes int * a,b; into `var *int a,b;` which to me is more readable
that a and b are the same (pointers to int).
imho, if you are going to change something make it as disimilar as pos from
other langs to avoid confusion, especially as I know very few ppl who
program in only one language now.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"QUS" <qus go2.pl> wrote in message news:bgqs4c$ldk$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Finally -

 After months of thinking about something better than C++, without
 *.h/#include hell, with "calmed-down" ;-) pointers and with design by
 contract, after trying some nice languages, that were missing overloading

or
 templates, when I almost gave up... there I found D - just by accident!

And
 to make this post short:

 THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY DREAMS :-)

Mine too! I'm glad you found us.


 So Walter, do please keep the good work, and allocate all your resources

to
 D. :-)

It's the enthusiasm of the D user community here that keeps me going.


 And the people on the list - spread the word, so other desperate

programmers
 like me know they are not alone... And that there exists the ultimate
 language!

Do you have a web site? What helps a lot is if you set up a D web page on
it.