A paper on D (draft)

[Bruno Medeiros]

BCS wrote:
> Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the 
> history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider 
> distribution.
> 
> Here it is as it stands now:
> 
>     http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf
> 
> It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings 
> under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.
> 
> I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D 
> should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?
> 
> I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them 
> in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and 
> would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly 
> interested in filling in the history section.
> 
> you can email me at:
> 
>  shro8822 @at uidaho .dot edu


I haven't looked much at the content, just at the overall structure, and 
  the order(if it matters at all?) seems a bit off, you put very 
advanced features soon (templates, mixins, variadic templates,etc.), and 
more basic ones later (contracts, and the whole miscelleanous: foreach, 
op overload, unicode, etc.)

If you're interested in a sugestion for order, grouping and/or 
enumeration of D features, perhaps this school D presentation of mine ( 
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~bdom/dee/D_apr-v2b.ppt ) is of interest. It's in 
portuguese but most of the terms and examples are in english so maybe 
it's still of use.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D