On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 23:10:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/13/15 2:02 PM, Almighty Bob wrote:
The language reference is pretty abysmal too. EG...
...
The page on templates starts with scope and instantiation
details. The
examples at the start have alias parameters which aren't
explained until
half way down the page.
The language reference is fine if arid. One shouldn't learn the
language from its reference. It should be, however,
complemented by tutorials. -- Andrei
On the language reference:
The D documentation as an introduction is readable, though large.
Relative to that, the DLib documentation hurts.
http://dlang.org/arrays.html
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_array.html
When I was new to PHP, I can tell you that the php.net/<funcname>
method of learning was a big help. It redirected me to the
appropriate manual page and manual pages had code snippets, often
provided in the comments section.
As an example, I want to do something random, and the PHP docs
are much easier to understand.
http://php.net/rand
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_random.html
-Charles
