D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Era Scarecrow]

On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 19:39:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:25PM +0200, Chris Cain wrote:
>> There's definitely not enough info on how to get stuff done  
>> with ranges. I knew about assumeSorted and the fact that  
>> std.algorithm.sort returns a sorted range, but only because I 
>> carefully combed  through the libraries looking for stuff like 
>> that.
>
> Again, helpful tutorials like Ali's book really need to be on  
> the forefront of D. Newbies *need* to read that stuff before 
> they  get dunked into the deep end of the pool that is the 
> current dlang.org  docs.

  I remember reading from that book a bit on the ranges, and it 
all made wonderful sense when I did. That was something like a 
year ago, now I can't remember anything on it except it was good. 
Not having a good link to it does hinder your work quite a bit.



>> That said, the D way is actually very well designed once you 
>> discover it. Like Andrei said, the code clarifies its  
>> intentions.
>> 
>> Hilariously, this style also makes the code look more magical. 
>>  You want to say something is unique and, thus, can be 
>> legitimately  made immutable? assumeUnique. Oh, you want to 
>> have a memoized  version of funct? memoize!funct. I leave my 
>> friends wondering how D knew  how to do all this stuff just by 
>> being "told" to. Magic API, that's  how.
>
> +1. Sufficiently advanced programming language syntax is 
> indistinguishible from magic. ;-)

  http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm

  Safe to say documentation needs to be updated and added to. 
Here's a catch-22 we have here. We need those that know the 
system and language and compiler to work on it and give us a 
working set of tools, but we need those people to update and make 
the documentation for everyone that wants to use it or it will be 
a dead language.

  Hmmm... Unfortunately I don't have sufficient knowledge of all 
of D to make documentation for updated and newer changes to the 
language. :(