On the richness of C++

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:37:41 +0000, Sean Kelly wrote:

> == Quote from Don Clugston (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>> Edward Diener Wrote:
>> >
>> > OK. Hopefully it will about D enough for me to pick up the
>> > particulars better than I have been able to do from the
>> > specification.
>> My opinion (as the technical reviewer of the book) was that the
>> template section discussed things from a C++ mindset, which is probably
> helpful for a C++ programmer; yet it gives less detail on the
> interesting unique-to-D stuff which renders many C++ techniques
> obsolete.
> 
> Yup.  That was a somewhat contentious decision on my part.  Since C++ is
> the only other language with templates I wanted to be sure the reader
> understood templates in general with the hope that it would provide a
> good base to build on.  As a result, because of the length limitation of
> the book, the chapter doesn't talk too much about some of the newer or
> more advanced features that D offers such as tuples.
> 
> Regarding "Tango with D" in general though... very little of the book is
> Tango-specific.  We made a deliberate effort to make the language our
> primary focus.
> 
> 
> Sean

I would like to compliment that effort, as it is IMO that the book was 
very well section in terms of what is D and what is Tango. I also think 
the book was very well written by all authors. I hope a book that goes 
into more of the specialties and details of D can be written with this 
quality.