February 05, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 20:40:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 12:06:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:35 +0000, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>> […]
>>>
>>> That pretty much sums up my understanding of it too.
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>> I recollect the "banter" including (paraphrased): "if the prototype
>> works, just put it into production, it's standard practice."
>
> Shhh... We have investors to keep happy.
half-jest
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February 11, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an
> account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to
> rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight
> into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop was important for
> them to have made this possible.
>
> It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people don't by any
> means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at variance with the "I
> am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" narrative, and also
> because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave early
> adopter one wants to have.
>
> (I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as vague as
> possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might not want the details
> of what they do being public).
I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study presentation at Dconf 2015. Can someone please forward this to him, or put him in contact with myself or Andrei?
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February 13, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter Bright | On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 22:28:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an
>> account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to
>> rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight
>> into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop was important for
>> them to have made this possible.
>>
>> It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people don't by any
>> means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at variance with the "I
>> am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" narrative, and also
>> because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave early
>> adopter one wants to have.
>>
>> (I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as vague as
>> possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might not want the details
>> of what they do being public).
>
> I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study presentation at Dconf 2015. Can someone please forward this to him, or put him in contact with myself or Andrei?
I will dig his card out unless Kingsley gets there first. (Let me know if so). Laeeth
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February 14, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | done. and gave him headsup too. is your email no
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if not what should the first part be? or you can email me at myfirstname@myfirstname.com
On Friday, 13 February 2015 at 07:31:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 22:28:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an
>>> account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to
>>> rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight
>>> into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop was important for
>>> them to have made this possible.
>>>
>>> It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people don't by any
>>> means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at variance with the "I
>>> am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" narrative, and also
>>> because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave early
>>> adopter one wants to have.
>>>
>>> (I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as vague as
>>> possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might not want the details
>>> of what they do being public).
>>
>> I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study presentation at Dconf 2015. Can someone please forward this to him, or put him in contact with myself or Andrei?
>
> I will dig his card out unless Kingsley gets there first. (Let me know if so). Laeeth
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