In article <ban9vr$1irt$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...

>I'm in this because I enjoy doing it. I'm running my own business because nobody with any fiscal sanity would fund the development of D <g>.

How do you fund the development?

Bill

"Bill Cox" <Bill_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:baod6t$2kr8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <ban9vr$1irt$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> >I'm in this because I enjoy doing it. I'm running my own business because nobody with any fiscal sanity would fund the development of D <g>.
> How do you fund the development?

With my own time and the help of several volunteers.

In article <3ECF3AD5.7D7966AE@hls.via.at>, Helmut Leitner says...
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>Walter wrote:
>> 
>> "Bill Cox" <bill@viasic.com> wrote in message

>> >   I'm also inventing more.  Our latest ASIC router stuff is so cool I
>> > can't stand that I can't publish it.

I've just had a period of two years that I didn't acheve anything that I feel was worth while. But right now I'm rising to my feet. Sure hope it lasts.

>> All I have to do is look at the crud I wrote 20 years ago <g>.

You should be worried if you didn't fee like it now.  :-)

>> > I also had to quit typing for 3 years after I wrote 20K lines of code in a month.
>> 
>> I can't type for long periods, either. Learned to work around it.

Same here. I had to switch to vi, it is less straining on your hands. But I had some luck too, what I thought was the boring clunky old vi was now Vim, and it turned out to be a serious challenger to emacs.

BTW, does anybody here have a D syntax file for Vim? I'm using C++ highlighting for now.

>> > It's good to develop alternate skills.  I've been really bad about this. So long as you're a valuable programmer, life will force you to code.  I suspect Georg, Walter, and I are all in this boat.  Good thing it's still fun.  Also, I notice that the three of us now code for our own companies that we founded.
>> 
>> I'm in this because I enjoy doing it. I'm running my own business because nobody with any fiscal sanity would fund the development of D <g>.
>> 
>> >  I guess still programming at even 39 makes me kind of old.
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>BTW I'm 47 now and I don't intend to retire. Programming (communicating with people and putting computers to work to their problems) is too much fun.

It is fun. But I do know quite a few people who feel sorry for me sitting day in and day out in a dark room with iron humming and screens flickering, and at times laughing out loud.

Hey, in a couple of years we all should go to the same old folks home. We'd have a hell of a time telling war stories, and bracing for the apple cores and banana peels!

Georg Wrede wrote:

> BTW, does anybody here have a D syntax file for Vim? I'm using C++ highlighting for now.

Yes, J.Mills wrote a syntax - it is available via www.vim.org though no updates have been made for about 6 months; though D syntax has been stable over that period.

I have taken the liberty of attaching the file to this post.

C 2003/5/25

Georg Wrede wrote:

> Same here. I had to switch to vi, it is less straining on your hands. But I had some luck too, what I thought was the boring clunky old vi was now Vim, and it turned out to be a serious challenger to emacs.

Agreed, I am getting to rather like vim after using it for a few years.

> BTW, does anybody here have a D syntax file for Vim? I'm using C++ highlighting for now.

Yes, J.Mills wrote a syntax some time ago. It is available via www.vim.org. (The file has been attached here for your convienience). I do not believe it has been updated in the last 6 months, but in that time the D syntax has been fair -ly stable.

C 2003/5/25

[Post scriptum: Sorry if this is a double post]

>>>>I also had to quit typing for 3 years after I wrote 20K lines of code in
>>>>a month.
>>>
>>>I can't type for long periods, either. Learned to work around it.
>>
> 
> Same here. I had to switch to vi, it is less straining on your hands.
> But I had some luck too, what I thought was the boring clunky old vi
> was now Vim, and it turned out to be a serious challenger to emacs.
> 
> BTW, does anybody here have a D syntax file for Vim? I'm using C++
> highlighting for now.

I trashed my hands using gnu-emacs.  Then, emacs was extremely helpful while I had to program by voice.  Now that I type again, I've switched to Vim, which has been a surprisingly good editor.

Let me know when you get a D syntax file.

-- Bill

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:baoceg$2k5h$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:3ECF3AD5.7D7966AE@hls.via.at...
> > BTW I'm 47 now and I don't intend to retire. Programming (communicating
> with
> > people and putting computers to work to their problems) is too much fun.
>
> It's fun for me, too. I never liked being a manager. It's best to be what you are - your greatest chance of success lies that direction.

Absolutely!

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ban7k7$1e36$2@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean@verizon.net> wrote in message news:bafc5k$1ons$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > One of the things people look for when hiring games programmers is people who can actually finish what they start.
>
> Oh, drat. I've been working on the same program for 20 years now. It's still not done :-(

:-) Great, I have plenty of time then...

Sz.