The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Robert Fraser]

eao197 wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:48:40 +0300, Walter Bright 
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> Denton Cockburn wrote:
>>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:35:41 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrei has announced on his web site http://erdani.org/ that he's
>>>> working on the book "The D Programming Language" due out in October of
>>>> 1998.
>>>  With a release date of a year away, I'm guessing he'll be putting 
>>> forward the new things in D 2.0?
>>>  These two books will be really good for D.
>>> Now the D-volution begins. (That still makes sense, you're remaking 
>>> C++ properly)
>>
>> The idea is that the book will represent D 2.0.
> 
> Could we expect that D 2.0 will be stable enough at Oct 2008 and there 
> won't be new compatibility-breaking changes in the language?
> 

I hope it isn't.

I like the fact that D is constantly evolving. Certainly, there's a bit 
of feature creep here & there, but overall it gives the feeling that D 
is certainly bridging the gap between programming paradigms and 
presenting itself as a modern language.