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[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> I'm 100% sure I can find a suboptimal programming example from some C/C++/
> D book.

Andrei's book draft is out for review. If you wish to review it and make 
suggestions for improvement, I'm sure Andrei can arrange that. Now's the 
time to do that!

> Just like an operating system implementation book discusses Minix 
> or some educational kernel, it's not really a surprise that programming 
> books have naive examples. I'm not really interested to hear how latest 
> win7 or linux 2.6.33 kernel patch solves some SATA2 / btrfs issue when 
> reading about filesystems and buses. You should take those words about 
> relative elegance with a grain of salt. Functional code is usually less 
> verbose, less buggy, a bit less efficient due to many issues etc. These 
> are things most professionals agree with. Apparently D users need to 
> enhance their e-dick by ranting about everything that's not done in d 
> just to get a tiny bit of publicity.

I've read many books about programming languages. One stands out - K&R's 
  The C Programming Language. The code examples in it are marvelous in 
conciseness and utility. It is possible to write a programming language 
book that way, and there's a good reason why K&R is an enduring classic 
of the genre.

I know it's hard to come up with examples that are illustrative, 
educational, elegant, and concise, but it is worth the author's best 
efforts in trying to do so.