Help me decide D or C

Alexandre alexandrelgodoy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 22:40:39 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 20:04:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> n 07/31/2019 12:05 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
>
> > I would not recommend D as a beginning language, both because
> there are
> > fewer beginner-oriented resources available for it than for C
> and Python
> > (the only one I know of is Ali Çehreli's book [1]), and
> because it's a
> > bigger, more complicated language.
> >
> > [1] http://www.ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> Ali here... :) Thanks for the link and I agree that D is much 
> larger than C. At least for that reason, learning C first or on 
> the side would still be good for the OP.
>
> Regarding "Programming in D", although it covers most[1] of the 
> language, it specifically targets beginners; so, it may not be 
> too difficult for the OP. Just give it a try... :)
>
> Ali
> [1] Unfortunately, copy constructors and some of the other 
> recent features are still missing.

I am considering reading your book + Andrei's book + 
documentation on the site. That would be my plan to learn D. Good 
job with your book btw, I enjoyed a lot the parts I've read.




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