Presentation Intro to D: What works?
rsw0x via Digitalmars-d
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Thu Jun 25 18:46:46 PDT 2015
On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 12:39:11 UTC, qznc wrote:
> Looks like I will give a talk about D to our local Functional
> Programming User Group in August. Feel free to join, if you can
> be in Karlsruhe, Germany:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/de/The-Karlsruhe-Functional-Programmers-Meetup-Group/events/223455553/
>
> As far as I know, pretty much nobody there knows anything about
> D. So I need to start with some general introduction. My
> current plan is to basically talk through the dlang.org
> frontpage. Modern convenience. Modeling power. Native
> efficiency.
>
> I guess others here have done such intros already. What works?
> What doesn't? What are the usually questions you get from
> newbies? Any evangelism tips?
If it's a functional programming meetup, show off D's ranges
combined with its functional programming style.
I think this is what really sets it apart from every other
C-based language, if D had pattern matching and destructuring it
would probably have the ability to look pretty close to Ocaml.
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