PowerNex is a kernel written in the D Programming Language. The goal is to have a whole OS written in D, where PowerNex powers the core.
Exactly what it is.
PowerNex is a kernel written in the D Programming Language. The goal is to have a whole OS written in D, where PowerNex powers the core.
Exactly what it is.
I love these experiments in OS’s in other languages. First Redox now this. Cool!
It’s either “written in D” or “written in the D Programming Language”, but not “written in the D”
Hibi,
While we are on the topic of correcting titles, shouldn’t yours be “Grammar” rather than “Spelling”?
What fun it is to correct everyone’s use of the English!
Thanks, I just learned something!
Just so you know in the USA saying “the D” is slang for dick. :p
and “the C” is slang for what?
Basically, you can’t win
Only if you frequent the lower class circles, but then again, if you do you probably “ax” people questions too.
Axscuuuse me?
Not quite. Try again?
darknexus,
You know, that’s pretty common out here on long island, oh no.
“aks” is actually the only correct way to pronounce it. “Ask” came much later.
If you want to be condescending, make sure you know what you’re talking about first.
Uh, Thom, citation please? English has some very strange spelling to pronunciation rules, yes, but reversing letters isn’t one of them. Ks vs sk do not get reversed and most certainly, sk does not get replaced with an x. That is a distinctly modern, and yes, lower class, phenomenon right down with writing “ur” instead of “you are.”
Do you have a citation for “aks” being “a distinctly modern, and yes, lower class, phenomenon “?
Growing up around Pittsburgh, the natives did not use “aks”, but they absolutely do butcher the language in other ways. You can go many places down south or up north towards Boston or Minnesota you’ll immediately notice not-so-subtle quirks there too. As far as I know, these are just cultural differences, and I haven’t associated them with being “lower class”, but I’d be curious to see any research you have that shows a correlation.
This statement contains so much ignorance and displays such a total lack of understanding of how phonetics, linguistics, and related fields of study work that I don’t even know where to begin. Should I start with explaining that an -x and -ks are allophones (pretty much) in English (and in Dutch, by the way)? Should I start with explaining that -sk and -ks are incredibly likely to be switched around in speech, much like -sp and -ps, due to the structure and placement of the parts of the human mouth and throat that aide in producing speech?
I don’t even know where to begin. This stuff is insanely fascinating, but I feel like your racist interpretation is clouding your judgement. As I’ve said before on OSNews[1], AAVE is f–king beautiful, and anybody who wants to still – in motherf–king 2016 – use it to beat its speakers over the head with, needs to take a few days to study its incredible depth and richness.
[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/29055/France_wants_a_new_keyboard_to_pr…
Edited 2016-06-27 22:43 UTC
(BTW, I’m no professional scholar.)
Do you really have to bring race into this?? You’re way off if you think he’s being racist here (esp. since he didn’t actually mention any specific race, only so-called class). Paranoia isn’t enough proof to accuse him of anything here.
I don’t agree “AAVE” is a separate dialect. There’s always going to be slang, but that’s random across all peoples and places, regardless of so-called race, class, education, etc. (Especially in heavily multi-cultural areas.)
The British have incredibly confusing slang, but I don’t consider that separate either. And that’s an entirely different continent, country, history, etc.
You’re making a mountain out of a molehill here.
A sentence that is both racist and classist. Congratulations!
Still waiting for an experimental operating system written in Swift.
I fixed the grammar for you
They forgot to make their point in writing an OS in D, sorry, the “D” programming language.
Or do I need to read the code to see the point?
D sprang from those who think C++ is a horrendous “advance” on C. D moves C to an object oriented form without most of the hangups associated with C++. So if you are interested in an OO OS, and not everyone will be, then making one in the BETTER C derived OO language will be of interest. BTW, I’ve been following/using D since it was at the .7 version. There’s not a whole lot available using D, so it’s good to see this.
I don’t feel that’s the point of D either. D also aims to be a multiparadigm language. They arguably have a better template system.
Well, it started as a move from C to OO C, but has grown considerably over the years. They’ve looked at what’s best in a number of other languages and fit in what they could as long as it didn’t interfere with the main aspects of the language.