D Programmer Jobs at Sociomantic Labs

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Thu Dec 5 01:29:54 PST 2013


Am Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:12:33 +0100
schrieb "PauloPinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org>:

> On Monday, 4 November 2013 at 16:49:10 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> > On Monday, 4 November 2013 at 16:22:52 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
> > wrote:
> >> On Monday, 4 November 2013 at 15:58:48 UTC, Chris wrote:
> >>> "Who D is Not For
> >>> - As a first programming language - Basic or Java is more 
> >>> suitable for beginners. D makes an excellent second language 
> >>> for intermediate to advanced programmers."
> >>> (http://dlang.org/overview.html)
> >>
> >> I'd argue against this. I think D would make a terrific first 
> >> language.
> > (...)
> >>
> >> Something like C or D (i'd opt for D) should be any devs first 
> >> language. Simply to educate them in the basics.
> >
> > I would say that it really depends on the age too. D as a first 
> > language for an 18 year-old technically savvy person might 
> > work, but for a 10 year-old?
> 
> Well I was looking at Z80 Assembly code at the age of 12.

I looked at Gorillaz QBasic code when my father bought our
first computer (286 PC without FPU, FPUs were out). So I
started there, and look, I could still learn other imperative
languages like D, Delphi or C++. Just not LISP or Haskell.

-- 
Marco



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