Should I brush up on my C before plunging fully into D?
WhatMeForget via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 14 20:14:58 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 15 October 2016 at 01:46:52 UTC, Chris Nelson wrote:
> I'm mainly a scripting language, .NET, and SQL programmer. I've
> been looking for a good programming language for Linux/BSD
> other than Python. I've surveyed the options and D appears to
> be a sane modern choice for me. (Thanks Ali Çehreli and others!)
>
> The only hitch is that many of the projects and libraries I'm
> interested in using or maybe porting are mainly C based. (My
> overall C-fu is weak...) Should I review a good C book or
> tutorial before jumping in to fully learning D? Or should I
> just eschew any C exposure until I master D?
>
> (As a side note, many of the C libraries I'm interested in seem
> to be confusing messes of header files and "organic" code. But
> who am I to judge?)
I would jump right into D and then veer off into C on a need to
know basis. This link might be of interest:
https://dlang.org/ctod.html
Also, are you aware of the libraries at the DUB registry?
And finally, Chapter 9 of Mike Parker's "Learning D" has lots of
info on libraries.
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