A very basic blog about D

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 15:55:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/7/13 8:00 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> I had some free time so I decided I should start a simple blog 
>> about D,
>> implementing some unix utilities. I've (unsurprisingly) 
>> started with echo.
>>
>> http://foreach-hour-life.blogspot.co.uk/
>>
>> It's nothing ground-breaking, but every little helps :)
>
> Nice idea! Comments:
>
> - The imperative version writes an extra space at the end (the 
> joiner version does not have that problem).

Woops, missed that.

> - The echo utility has an odd way to process the cmdline: if 
> exactly the first argument is a -n, then do not writeln at the 
> end.

As mentioned in the blog, i'll be covering the various flags 
later.

> - It's quite likely the joiner-based version will be slower 
> because it writes one character at a time. (Would be great to 
> test and discuss performance as well.)

I plan on continuing both versions through successive posts, so 
when they're complete I'll do a head-to-head between them, 
including performance.