Is D programming friendly for beginners?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 08:40:49PM +0000, Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> I think it really depends on the person. My first language was C++, which
> was absolute hell to learn as a complete beginner to programming, but I
> really wanted to learn a language with low-level capabilities that could
> also do gamedev. Learning C++ as my first language was incredibly difficult,
> but it also made the programming parts of my CS degree a breeze - especially
> courses like machine level programming. Nobody else in the class even
> understood what a pointer was for the first couple weeks.

	People who are more than casually interested in computers should
	have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.
	Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
	-- D. Knuth

;-)


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