Here's looking at you, kid

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 20 06:37:00 PST 2015


On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 14:15:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 08:51:13 UTC, Warwick wrote:
>> many visitors are ending up using language reference to learn 
>> D.
>>
>> Or they use that reference to get their first impressions.
>
> Then they're fools.
>
> In order to go to the link "D Reference" on dlang.org, your 
> eyes have to scan past the "Getting Started" link and you have 
> to purposely decide not to click on it. If I wanted to get up 
> and running with a language, I wouldn't ignore the page that 
> was obviously meant to help me.
>
> Even if they didn't see the link, the FIRST result if you 
> google "D language tutorial" is Ali's book. I'm really not sure 
> what else can be done to help people.

I agree. There's not a lot more that I can see that needs to be 
changed on the website. And Ali's book is really good. Plus, the 
forum is friendly.


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