On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 12:39:11 UTC, qznc wrote:
Looks like I will give a talk about D to our local Functional
Programming User Group in August. Feel free to join, if you can
be in Karlsruhe, Germany:
http://www.meetup.com/de/The-Karlsruhe-Functional-Programmers-Meetup-Group/events/223455553/
As far as I know, pretty much nobody there knows anything about
D. So I need to start with some general introduction. My
current plan is to basically talk through the dlang.org
frontpage. Modern convenience. Modeling power. Native
efficiency.
What specifically do you plan to mention for each?
I guess others here have done such intros already. What works?
What doesn't? What are the usually questions you get from
newbies? Any evangelism tips?
Never done an intro but watched several and have been thinking
about doing an intro talk locally myself. One thing I don't
often see in intros that I was thinking about adding is who is
behind the language? Do a small bio of Walter with his C++
compiler background and Andrei with his modern C++ design
background. That will help orient the newbie on where the
language comes from.
