On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 07:28:18 UTC, Kåre Andersson
wrote:
Firstly, I have always believed that for instance downloading
someting, is an obstacle for someone who just wants to get a
first grasp of a new programming language. They want to
instantly and online do some tests and get a feeling before
downloading something.
Secondly, and maybe it is the primary goal, it can be a good
development tool, especially for functions, with the capacity
of immediate demonstrations. Even a more advanced programmer
wants to know exacly what a function/tool does before investing
further energy examining it.
If you want to try out D code without downloading the compiler
there's http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/