retard wrote:
I'm 100% sure I can find a suboptimal programming example from some C/C++/ D book.
Andrei's book draft is out for review. If you wish to review it and make suggestions for improvement, I'm sure Andrei can arrange that. Now's the time to do that!
Just like an operating system implementation book discusses Minix or some educational kernel, it's not really a surprise that programming books have naive examples. I'm not really interested to hear how latest win7 or linux 2.6.33 kernel patch solves some SATA2 / btrfs issue when reading about filesystems and buses. You should take those words about relative elegance with a grain of salt. Functional code is usually less verbose, less buggy, a bit less efficient due to many issues etc. These are things most professionals agree with. Apparently D users need to enhance their e-dick by ranting about everything that's not done in d just to get a tiny bit of publicity.
I've read many books about programming languages. One stands out - K&R's The C Programming Language. The code examples in it are marvelous in conciseness and utility. It is possible to write a programming language book that way, and there's a good reason why K&R is an enduring classic of the genre.
I know it's hard to come up with examples that are illustrative, educational, elegant, and concise, but it is worth the author's best efforts in trying to do so.
