Code example on www.d-programming-language.org?

[David Gileadi]

On 4/4/11 3:18 PM, Emil Madsen wrote:
> On 5 April 2011 00:02, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
> <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>> wrote:
>
>     Andrei:
>
>      > Clearly finding a good example with such conflicting requirements
>     is not
>      > easy and there's no need to restate that. If it were easy I would've
>      > done it. What is needed is an example that successfully finds the
>     sweet
>      > spot.
>
>     In my opinion what I have explained in my answer is not obvious
>     stuff, seeing how many solutions/programmers on Rosettacode fail.
>
>     My point was that in my opinion there is no such single example that
>     satisfies your requests, and that your requests are bad. If you put
>     too much stuff in a single example, the result is not what I will
>     call a good example for very public D code. So you have to put only
>     a limited amount of stuff in the example, or you have to show more
>     than one example.
>
>     If you want a single example, the second on Wikipedia is the one I like:
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_language#Example_2
>
>     Bye,
>     bearophile
>
>
>
> Honestly I would rather meet a site that has several simple examples
> illustrating the capabilities of a language, instead of a single one,
> thats messy.
>
> --
> // Yours sincerely
> // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen

It might be a good idea to offer a very simple code example near the top 
of the page to give the flavor of the language, together with a link to 
a page with further code examples.  That page might live somewhere under 
the Overview navigation section, and might merge with the "Example: wc" 
page.