Beginner ?. Why does D suggest to learn java

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On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 12:19:43 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> templates arent about FP only. yet i agree that Scheme is a 
> very good starting point, SICP rocks.

It is available for free online:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Scheme is good for teaching because it is a minimalistic 
language, so you quickly learn the semantic model which is more 
hidden in Haskell.

But I really enjoyed this one:

http://tryhaskell.org/

D should have a similar intro when the current quirks have been 
ironed out.