Array operation for computing the dot product?

[Ali Çehreli]

retard wrote:
 > The funny thing about D is that if you start writing a book about it,
 > there's a high desire to change the core features and add more of 
them in
 > the community.

I have started writing a D book in June and have not desired to change 
much about the language. I did find the half-reference behavior of 
slices weird and voiced my opinion about it.

If you meant Andrei's book; he is not changing the language just because 
he is writing a book about it. The design of the language and the book 
happen together.

My book targets the Turkish speaking novice programmer, and I am sure is 
tainted by my C++ experience. D is an excellent language to teach 
programming with. There is very little cruft in the language when doing 
the simple things. There is very little to make novice mistakes with.

 > It's just that D is a shitty language to work with because even
 > the stable version is a moving target and/or many features are
 > unspecified.

I did need to change my text only a few times, e.g. when constant-sized 
arrays became value types.

Shitty is in the eye of the beholder. Someone else may call C++ shitty 
just for the opposite reason: it is too stable. Years go by without any 
addition to the language. Even more years go by for the compiler vendors 
to catch up. That's not productive.

D is great because it is being designed openly by great programmers: the 
person with the longest C++ compiler writing experience, the person who 
has pushed C++ templates beyond their limits and introduced needs for 
stronger templates, many others who contribute to the language at 
various levels. Heck, even my naive voice has an effect on the language.

D2 obviously must stabilize before being useful; but it is great that it 
moves fast before that happens.

Ali