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?
As these are FP people, I would start by pointing out that D is
not a pure functional PL. Then you could explain how its
functional aspects benefit from that fact, e.g.
- ranges work with mutation => composability _and_ efficient
codegen
- weak vs strong purity => allows more code to be pure
