D Programmer Jobs at Sociomantic Labs

[simendsjo]

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.
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>
> 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?

And for a non-english speaker? I remember having a very hard time 
reading English books when I was younger (there might be many 
programming books for languages with a lot of speakers, but not 
for all languages), and had  difficulties grokking pointers and 
bit operations. Of course, kids today is much better at English 
at a young age due to the internet etc., but it's still a lot of 
new terminology you aren't used to.

Being in college now, I see a lot of grown-ups *really* 
struggling to grasp *basic* programming concepts using Java (even 
most of the teachers unfortunately). Starting with a limited 
language like Java probably isn't that bad until you are capable 
of both reading and writing non-trivial code.

I doubt most people here are representative for the average 
programmer. Many of the discussions here are way over my head, 
but I still hope that I'm above average.