On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 17:26:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Independent on the topic at hand - wondering what your reasoning is. I just took a look and there are 205 votes. Not a large number, but quite a lot more than any voting we saw in the past (when consensus was proclaimed after like 15 votes :o)). Intuitively I agree with you, but I wonder at what point numbers become large enough to capture meaning. Thx! -- Andrei

Really, do really believe in what you wrote?

So if you take a look right now, the "YES" option for the question: "Do you like new

DUB config format?" Is somehow "magically" winning the poll right now!

Bubba.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 18:25:06 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> Really, do really believe in what you wrote?
>
> So if you take a look right now, the "YES" option for the question: "Do you like new
>
> DUB config format?" Is somehow "magically" winning the poll right now!
>
> Bubba.

Huh. That changed quickly. My Z-test is already out of date. ;)

On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?

If you believe that, the votes changes "dramagically" and now it's 53% in favor of SDLang.

Bubba.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 18:25:06 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 17:26:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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>
> So if you take a look right now, the "YES" option for the question: "Do you like new
>
> DUB config format?" Is somehow "magically" winning the poll right now!
>
> Bubba.

Hooray, way to go SDLang!!!!!!

I think what SDL needs is a re-branding!  A few options:

(S)imple (D)ead (L)anguage
(D)ead (S)imple (L)anguage   (Google's not going to like that either)
(S)onke (D)on't (L)ike JSON

It all started here ....

http://forum.dlang.org/post/evxhpxfkeorrrkhqzzdo@forum.dlang.org
:-)

... or one of the posts in that thread, I mean.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:05:38 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> (S)onke (D)on't (L)ike JSON

Hey, you can make all joke you want, but please don't be harsh with Sonke, because his contribution is awesome, and back then, he asked for direction and people pointed SDLang.

Bubba.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:15:25 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:05:38 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> (S)onke (D)on't (L)ike JSON
>
> Hey, you can make all joke you want, but please don't be harsh with Sonke, because his contribution is awesome, and back then, he asked for direction and people pointed SDLang.
>
> Bubba.

Sorry if that came off as a dig at Sonke, it was not intended as such.  I prefer SDL to JSON and thus was very happy with his decision, so I consider myself one of his supporters in this case ... and it just happened to fit with SDL.

<sarcasm>I think the default should be the obscure, hipster language that no-one has heard of and who's website is currently offline[1]. Using this language for dub configuration should increase the barrier-to-entry just enough to weed out the soft programmers who we don't need using D. Json is far too easy to learn and too many IDE's support it. We want real programmers who like hard work, damn it!</sarcasm>

[1]: http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 23:34:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> <sarcasm>I think the default should be the obscure, hipster language that no-one has heard of and who's website is currently offline[1]. Using this language for dub configuration should increase the barrier-to-entry just enough to weed out the soft programmers who we don't need using D. Json is far too easy to learn and too many IDE's support it. We want real programmers who like hard work, damn it!</sarcasm>
>
> [1]: http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide

Thats why I want to rename it Simple Dead Language.

Honestly though there is nothing to 'Learn'.  You look at the examples and write your config file.  Honestly, when you are editing the text based configuration file for some software do you seriously even ask yourself "What language is this written in".  Unless it is XML or JSON you would likely never know, and wouldn't bother to look it up.

For example what language is Nginx's config written in:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-the-nginx-configuration-file-structure-and-configuration-contexts

I have no idea!

And with SDL if you have a problem you can write a comment to yourself explaining how it works once you figure it out.  While JSON supposedly supports comments anyone who can't figure out SDL syntax clearly isn't smart enough to write comments in a JSON file :o)

On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 01:10:07 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 23:34:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Thats why I want to rename it Simple Dead Language.
>
> [...]

If it was to be renamed, I would much prefer an initialism not already taken.