D got mentioned as well.

It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news.

Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use Google Translate for the text).

http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html


Andrei

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> D got mentioned as well.
>
> It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news.
>
> Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use Google Translate for the text).
>
> http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html

Wow, you're celebrities :-P This is nice publicity!

Off topic: I was surprised that this website doesn't use any diacritics, even though it is completely in Romanian. Is this usual practice?

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> D got mentioned as well.
> ...

Awesome!

Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you Andrei. :)

Matheus.

On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> D got mentioned as well.
>> ...
>
> Awesome!
>
> Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you
> Andrei. :)

Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to Romanians. In particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- Andrei

On 10/17/2015 9:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> D got mentioned as well.
>>> ...
>>
>> Awesome!
>>
>> Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you
>> Andrei. :)
>
> Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to Romanians. In
> particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- Andrei


We had a great time, and the Romanian people we met couldn't have been nicer to us. Romania is a very beautiful country, and having Andrei as our guide was an opportunity not to be missed!

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 18:25:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/17/2015 9:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> D got mentioned as well.
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> Awesome!
>>>
>>> Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you
>>> Andrei. :)
>>
>> Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to Romanians. In
>> particular they say I have a "Romanian mobster" look going. -- Andrei
>
>
> We had a great time, and the Romanian people we met couldn't have been nicer to us. Romania is a very beautiful country, and having Andrei as our guide was an opportunity not to be missed!

Of course they were nice, after all you had a 'Romanian mobster' with you :-)

On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> use Google Translate for the text).

Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is famous as "novel from Facebook".

:)

Ali

On 17 October 2015 at 11:36, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> D got mentioned as well.
>
> It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news.
>
> Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use Google Translate for the text).
>
>
> http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikeit-trei-dintre-cei-mai-mari-programatori-din-lume-invitatii-lui-george-buhnici-sfaturile-romanului-de-la-facebook.html
>
>
> Andrei
>

Congrats to all.  Shame about the incompetent journalist though.

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 22:39:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> use Google Translate for the text).
>
> Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is famous as "novel from Facebook".
>
> :)
>
> Ali

That's because they don't use diacritics:
romanul = the novel
românul = the Romanian

On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 11:48 +0000, rumbu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 22:39:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > On 10/17/2015 02:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > use Google Translate for the text).
> > 
> > Ok, let's try it: His name is Andrei Alexandrescu - and is famous as "novel from Facebook".
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Ali
> 
> That's because they don't use diacritics:
> romanul = the novel
> românul = the Romanian
> 

So diacritical marks are critical.

I guess this is an other reason all software dealing with text should use Unicode and not ASCII, EBCDIC,…


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