• Ognen Duzlevski (22/22) Aug 16 2001 Hello,
• Walter (7/29) Aug 16 2001 Thanks for your kind words. I do have a compiler for D, but it just isn'...

"Ognen Duzlevski" <ognen gene.pbi.nrc.ca> writes:

Hello,

as you know D spec was on slashdot so you are bound to get people like me
with less than 20 years of development experience (only 5-10) ;)
discussing things that they dont fully understand (for example, D) :). On a
serious note, I read the specs and liked what I saw - I think the idea to
go garbage collection instead of manual memory management, drop templates
etc. is a good one, although I believe there should be some way to substitute
for templates in equal power but less complexity.

I for one am looking forward to seeing a compiler everyone can download
and test.

On a side note, having just finished a bioinformatics product that was in
essence an C-based multi-threaded version of someone else's code, I can tell you
that "synchronize" keyword and support for cleaner and
less-need-to-tend-to-detail threaded programming would have been welcome
help :)

Best regards,
Ognen Duzlevski
--
Bioinformatics team
Plant Biotechnology Institute
National Research Council
Saskatoon, SK, Canada

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

Thanks for your kind words. I do have a compiler for D, but it just isn't
ready to unleash. Looks like I'm going to be spending some late nights <g>.

"Ognen Duzlevski" <ognen gene.pbi.nrc.ca> wrote in message
news:9lgle1$25tm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Hello,

 as you know D spec was on slashdot so you are bound to get people like me
 with less than 20 years of development experience (only 5-10) ;)
 discussing things that they dont fully understand (for example, D) :). On

a
 serious note, I read the specs and liked what I saw - I think the idea to
 go garbage collection instead of manual memory management, drop templates
 etc. is a good one, although I believe there should be some way to

substitute
 for templates in equal power but less complexity.

 I for one am looking forward to seeing a compiler everyone can download
 and test.

 On a side note, having just finished a bioinformatics product that was in
 essence an C-based multi-threaded version of someone else's code, I can

tell you
 that "synchronize" keyword and support for cleaner and
 less-need-to-tend-to-detail threaded programming would have been welcome
 help :)

 Best regards,
 Ognen Duzlevski
 --
 Bioinformatics team
 Plant Biotechnology Institute
 National Research Council
 Saskatoon, SK, Canada