[buug] ProgLangTalkPosbility Interest?? DigitalMarsD 6BenefitWordsGoHere

[john_re]

Great talk suggestion, Chris.  Some suggestions:

1) What is the few word subject line? Like, for someone who has never
heard of it,  like 6 words to append to the subject I wrote. Like: "Easy
programming, fast as C almost" - 
2) In sales & marketing communications, the concept is FAB: Features,
Advantages, Benefits - you want to tell the reader quickly what the
benefits are, for somethign they've never heard of before, so they'll
quickly grok WHY they might want to hear the talk, so the aprox 6 words
shoulld be benefit descriptional, like I tried to guess in #1.
3) What _do_ you use if for? you didn't say. Where are it's application
areas? What  sw do you write wsith it?

4) Please write a one paragraph description, say 50-75 words  of what
your talk would be about, for iclusion in the July 7 meeting
announcement. Pleae post that to the list with a subject like in this
msg with the 6 word benefits added, in about 1-2 days, so I can include
it in the local and Americas announcement.
5) I'll put your description in the announcement, & say "if you would
like to hear this talk, please joing the buug.org mailing list & reply
to the "ProgLangTalkPosbility Interest?? DigitalMarsD 
6BenefitWordsGoHere" thread and say you will come to this talk, then it
will be scheduled.
6) My suggestion is plan to give a 15 min talk time slot the first time
you give the presentation, if this is the first time you've given a talk
about it. Baby step your way up to bigger talks.  You can always come
back in 6 months with a better/morecomplete/whatever talk.

7) Hey - I'm just making up the rules as I go. The above are guidline
suggestions. Do whatever you feel is appropriate.  If someone says "yes"
on the list to hearing your talk, you're on.


On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:30 -0700, "Chris Miller"
<lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> said:
> In the event that you are unable to find any better speakers, or would 
> like a few speakers on stand-by in the event that someone else bails...
> 
> I use the Digital Mars D Programming Language 
> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d) extensively in my projects.  D is an 
> up-and-coming language which focuses on real-world usability instead of 
> bleeding-edge academic features or rock-solid speed or reliability.  It 
> is created and maintained by Walter Bright of Digital Mars, and 
> currently works on both 32-bit Microsoft Windows and 32-bit GNU/Linux 
> (as well as BSD and other 32-bit UNIX platforms if I'm not mistaken).  
> It also has a GCC port called GDC which gives it the ability to work on 
> 64-bit UNIX platforms, as well as experimental functionality on other 
> architectures as well (Ultra SPARC 64 has been reported, as well as 
> PPC).  A quick overview of the features of Digital Mars D:
> 
> o Built-in garbage collection
> o Dynamic arrays
> o Easy array concatenation and "slicing"
> o Associative arrays
> o Contract programming
> o Unit testing
> o Compile-time function execution
> o Templates
> o Inline assembler
> o Link against C libraries and C++ Shared Objects/DLLs
> o Extensive benchmarking tests have proven D to be approximately as fast 
> as C++!
> 
> If you're interested in reading further about the D Programming 
> Language, then you can read more on the DocForge wiki: 
> http://docforge.com/wiki/Digital_Mars_D
> 
> If you would like me to fill some dead air with my funky little 
> language, or at least be on standby in the event that another speaker 
> bails, then let me know so I can start throwing together a slideshow and 
> some demonstration test cases as soon as possible - the longer I have 
> the better it will be, and the more flexible I can make it (able to cut 
> parts out to save time if there's a weird amount of dead time available, 
> etc.)  The sooner you let me know if it's something you're possibly 
> interested in the greater time I will also have to discuss with other 
> members of the D Programming Community to build a better (and more 
> dynamic) presentation as well.
> 
> Just if you're interested (it might not be specifically what you're 
> looking for, which is okay - if you have more Linux-specific topics you 
> should do those /first/).
> 
> -- 
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