Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 17:48:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-06-05 11:25, Chris wrote:
>
>> My hard copy arrived today. Now I can read it anywhere I like 
>> ;)
>>
>> Funnily enough, it's only the second book about D and still 
>> I've been
>> more productive in D than in any other language, languages for 
>> which
>> thousands of titles are available.
>
> There's a book about D1 and Tango as well. Also some Chinese 
> book, or that might have been a translation.

There's Ali's online tutorial, of course. Great stuff. But a 
cookbook was really the thing I needed. Just to pick it up and to 
know "How to send an email" is great.

A lot of stuff here on the forum is about language design, which 
made D what it is. However, a lot of things in programming are 
plain and simple everyday problems like having your program send 
an email. I recently told a coworker to have a look at D and 
maybe use it for his number crunching algorithms. You can get far 
in D without templates, mixins and ranges. You don't need to 
learn them before you can use the language. You learn about them 
as you go along. You can dig right in. Maybe that's part of the 
reasons why people are reluctant to use D. They think you have to 
be a rocket scientist to write a program. You don't. But it will 
turn you into one :-)