More Illuminating Introductory Code Example on dlang.org

ixid nuaccount at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 00:49:10 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 20:49:54 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Wednesday 19:th of Februari I'm giving my first talk on D 
> for my fellow collegues at my consultant firm office HiQ, 
> Linköping, Sweden.
>
> If any of you are in the neighbourhood please let me know and I 
> will invite you. The lecture will most likely be held in 
> Swedish.
>
> I'll try to make my best to convince them that D is the way to 
> go for the future of programming.
>
> On my strive I have one wish to the maintainers of dlang.org:
>
> I believe the first code example a newbie sees when he/she 
> first visits dlang.org should be some variation of Walter's 
> showcase on Component Programming including all the bells and 
> whistles of lazy evaluted ranges.
>
> IMHO, this would increase the probability of the newbie staying 
> a bit further on the site trying to figure out the details of 
> what make this intriguing D code example tick. And, as a 
> result, be more convinced about D's unique and powerful 
> features.
>
> What do you think, fellow D programmers?

Be wary as one of Walter's examples is buggy. If someone has the 
link I will point it out.


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