Code example on www.d-programming-language.org?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Apr 4 14:18:11 PDT 2011


On 4/4/11 4:02 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei:
>
>> We have a rather aged code example on www.d-programming-language.org.
>> What would you think would be a good replacement? The ideal snippet
>> would make a compelling tour of the language's and stdlib's most
>> important features while at the same time being simple and concise.
>
> If you try to cram most features in a simple small program you end with something that looks like a little Christmas tree. I don't think this is a good advertisement for D.

Keywords: "ideal" "compelling" "most important" "simple" "concise".

Clearly finding a good example with such conflicting requirements is not 
easy and there's no need to restate that. If it were easy I would've 
done it. What is needed is an example that successfully finds the sweet 
spot.


Thanks,

Andrei



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