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.
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?
Depends on where the newbies are coming from, C, C++, Java,
Python? Would your audience be interested in templates? A big
thing in D are structs, they are darn useful. Structs, ranges,
templates, component programming and chaining.
My only evangelism tip is not to be evangelistic about D. Present
it with warts and all.
