In article <pan.2006.02.10.12.00.17.997533@gmail.com>, Yves Jacoby says...
>Another thing I would really find helpful for this community would be a how-to, telling people how to start if they want to patch the compiler and especially how-to submit the patches in an ordered manner. I think this would surely save some time to developers, if they get the patches delivered. Choosing to include it or not is then left over to the developer, who could than judge of the quality of the patch.

I don't know if this addresses what you're asking for at all, but someone has written "The GDC Hackers Guild" (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GdcHacking).

I agree we can do a lot more to answer people's questions before they ask them, but I'm not sure where we could put the info to make sure they find it. :(

jcc7

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:14:37 -0500, jcc7 <jcc7_member@pathlink.com> wrote:

> Also, we should probably start editing our GUI library list
> (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?AvailableGuiLibraries) to reflect which
> libraries have the best potential (or at least add some brief lists of positives
> and negatives for each). That way people can quickly find what they're looking
> for without their eyes glazing over.
>
> jcc7

I don't like the Status column; difference between Early and Alpha / better is not known. I think it should distinctly be planning, pre-alpha, alpha, beta, release (perhaps with major version number), etc. Maybe the list should even be sorted by status instead.

Kramer wrote:
> http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_people_arent_using_haskell.htm
> 
> I came across the link above and I thought of D while reading it.  Basically,
> the author just ruminates over why Haskell hasn't taken off more and how it
> seems (he feels) the community has a lot to do with that reason.
<snip>

I guess what you need to remember is that D and Haskell are both distinct in purpose from Perl et al.  It reminds me of the quote at the beginning of the D website:

"It seems to me that most of the "new" programming languages fall into one of two categories: Those from academia with radical new paradigms and those from large corporations with a focus on RAD and the web. Maybe it's time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."

Stewart.

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In article <dsq5qf$25nf$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
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>Kramer wrote:
>> http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_people_arent_using_haskell.htm
>> 
>> I came across the link above and I thought of D while reading it.  Basically, the author just ruminates over why Haskell hasn't taken off more and how it seems (he feels) the community has a lot to do with that reason.
><snip>
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>I guess what you need to remember is that D and Haskell are both distinct in purpose from Perl et al.  It reminds me of the quote at the beginning of the D website:
>
>"It seems to me that most of the "new" programming languages fall into one of two categories: Those from academia with radical new paradigms and those from large corporations with a focus on RAD and the web. Maybe it's time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."
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>Stewart.
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Whole-heartedly agreed.

Again though, I wasn't necessarily comparing Haskell and D, just the community aspect of it, but I'm assuming that understanding was implicit in your post. :)

And from above, I couldn't agree more on the pragmatic/idealistic balance.

-Kramer