Presentation Intro to D: What works?

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 25 21:42:49 PDT 2015


On 26/06/2015 1:46 p.m., rsw0x wrote:
> 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.

irk be careful when showing off ranges. Get some damn good background of 
what D is first. It took me well over a year before I started to get 
into them.


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