On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 22:48:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 8/28/25 2:51 PM, monkyyy wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 21:33:27 UTC, Brother Bill
wrote:
>>
>> The 'old book' pdf seems to be the most current approach,
and it
>> should only be about 3 years old.
>
> Its not even close to only 3 years old, it mayve been updated
some but
> its like 15 years old
That's not an accurate guess: I may have started writing pieces
of it 15 years ago but the last update was in February 2022:
https://bitbucket.org/acehreli/ddili/commits/branch/master
Its canonical and probably better then the spec itself, but it is
old; updates can only do so much. You got a list of like 50 names
your thanking for helping *in 2017*; I think I read it to learn d
in 2020, it was quite long then, its been a bit. D itself isnt
moving fast so its not like your falling behind, but someone did
just go thru your book and found regressions.
I know I will never get to the level of many programmers
?
Your probably like 5th, your book is canonical given its linked
to by official sources enough that I believe every new user is
aware of it within a few days.
but the book was written to teach programming to novices.
The fact that it uses D is helpful on many levels. There are
some old concepts in > there like OOP and strong exception
guarantees but I claim the content is still usable today.
My opinions on oop asside, its probably a bit on the heavy side
to be a teaching tool, your competing with the spec in my
opinion, especially if you only add chapters for new features or
clarifying paragraphs as someone disagrees with you. I bet it
hurt if someone threw it at ye head.
