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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/5/11 9:19 AM, Ary Manzana wrote:
> On 4/4/11 5:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We have a rather aged code example on www.d-programming-language.org.
>> What would you think would be a good replacement? The ideal snippet
>> would make a compelling tour of the language's and stdlib's most
>> important features while at the same time being simple and concise.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I like the (guess what's I'm going to say... :-P) Ruby home page where
> it shows small snippets of specific features. This features are randomly
> selected on each page visit.
>
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
>
> What I like about it is that you can see in a glance that one feature of
> the language is really nice and simple to use and makes you think
> everything else must be like that. ;-)

That's pretty neat.

> If you want to show every possible feature of the language it's kind of
> overkill, both for you and for the user who's going to read it.
>
> If the user wants to know more, point her to the full documentation, or
> to a short guide of the main features.
>
> Again, Ruby has a nice page for this:
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/
>
> It shows you how to start programming in Ruby if you come from C++, or
> from Java, or from X. That's very nice because for C++ you can say
> "Shorter syntax, garbage collection, etc.", for Java you can say "You
> will have classes and interfaces, just like in Java", for Ruby you can
> say "You can have closures doing this and that", etc.

Thanks, those look nice.


Andrei