Pragmatic D Tutorial

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 17:29:32 PDT 2013


On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
> I believe one of the things D needs right now is more 
> documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
>
> It is aimed at people who can already program well in other 
> languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I 
> expect most people to know this stuff. I do not consider D to 
> be a language for beginners anyways.
>
> It is aiming for pragmatic not comprehensive advice. For 
> example, I mostly ignore LDC and GDC except for the 
> optimization chapter.
>
> Since I am working on Linux exclusively and I like the command 
> line, I cannot teach to Windows users. Sorry.
>
> This is still very incomplete and my our newborn family member 
> requires quite some attention. So expect this to develop with 
> glacial speed. ;)
>
> Nevertheless, I want to put this version 0.1 out to get some 
> feedback. What do you think about the topic selection? What 
> topics are missing? Serious errors so far?
>
> http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/index.html
>
> Wreck it! :)

"Sometimes D is criticised, because it is not simple language, in 
contrast to Go, Rust, Lisp, or Scala. However, a D programmer 
sees no problem and actually likes his big toolbox."

I wouldn't call any of those languages simple, except for Go. 
Maybe Go, C, Scheme, Python?


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