Learning D for a non computer science background person : pre-requisite knowledge?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:10:33 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe 
> wrote:
>> While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's 
>> been mostly API level code cobbling work.
>>
>> Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the fact 
>> that I don't have much of a grasp over the foundational stuff 
>> (discrete mathematics, machine organization, etc.) and hence 
>> am preparing for the same.
>>
>> Would like to know if there be anything else I should work 
>> through before approaching "D" via Mr. Alexandrescu's book.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> An interesting thing about D (that C++ shares to a degree) is 
> that it is sufficiently high level that you can write programs 
> while knowing nothing about the underlying machine. At the same 
> time (again, like C++) it is sufficiently low level that you 
> have full access to the machine's capabilities if you want to 
> use them. If you want to write an operating system in D, you 
> will need to know about machine organization. If you are 
> writing a command-line utility to process text, you don't need 
> to know or care about the specifics of the underlying hardware.

And don't forget - and I'll say this again and again - the 
modeling power of D. Machines are only as intelligent as we make 
them (not talking about Terminator or The Matrix here!) and D is 
a good tool to make a machine work like reality.