If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how they'll be moving forward.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how they'll be moving forward.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/

number 1 on hn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 01:21:30PM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice.  In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how they'll be moving forward.
> 
> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
> 
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/

Inspiring story.  Score another one for D!


T

-- 
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/
>
> number 1 on hn
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348

OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end of it!

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> The blog:
>>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>>>
>>> Reddit:
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/
>>
>> number 1 on hn
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348
>
> OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end of it!

It seems I'm not supposed to:

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

What a strange site.

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>> The blog:
>>>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>>>>
>>>> Reddit:
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/
>>>
>>> number 1 on hn
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348
>>
>> OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end of it!
>
> It seems I'm not supposed to:
>
> "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
>
> What a strange site.

The site is intentionally designed in a way that discourages discussion. They prefer to have comments several paragraphs long that appear to someone with no knowledge of the matter to inject insights into the conversation. In practice most of the comments are uninformed BS and attempts to put others down but it is what it is.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:13:41PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
[...]
> > > > number 1 on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348
> > > 
> > > OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end of it!
> > 
> > It seems I'm not supposed to:
> > 
> > "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
> > 
> > What a strange site.
> 
> The site is intentionally designed in a way that discourages discussion.  They prefer to have comments several paragraphs long that appear to someone with no knowledge of the matter to inject insights into the conversation. In practice most of the comments are uninformed BS and attempts to put others down but it is what it is.

Thank you for confirming that I wasn't just being an outdated freak in the loonie bin.  This is exactly my evaluation of HN (and several other similar sites), and why I find these newfangled social-media thingamajigs a huge waste of my time, and not worth the bother to sign up for.


T

-- 
Век живи - век учись. А дураком помрёшь.

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how they'll be moving forward.
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/
>
> number 1 on hn
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348

Still 2nd on r/programming. I don't really know how these things work, but it's been fun.

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how they'll be moving forward.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/

"that's were" -> that's where

The code example for the string80 alias has a closing HTML code tag leaked into the displayed example somehow.

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> The blog:
>>> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/20/how-an-engineering-company-chose-to-migrate-to-d/
>>>
>>> Reddit:
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_engineering_company_chose_to_migrate_to_d/
>>
>> number 1 on hn
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348
>
> OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end of it!

Who produces the Extended Pascal compiler you have been using?