On 04/04/2011 11:02 PM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei:
We have a rather aged code example on www.d-programming-language.org.
What would you think would be a good replacement? The ideal snippet
would make a compelling tour of the language's and stdlib's most
important features while at the same time being simple and concise.
If you try to cram most features in a simple small program you end with
something that looks like a little Christmas tree. I don't think this is a good
advertisement for D.
On the rosettacode.org site there are many ways to implement the D solutions.
The C solutions are often not much general, and too much low level. The C++
solutions are often over-engineered, over-generalized, and sometimes not easy
to understand. The Go solutions are sometimes too much simple. A good D
solution is quite short and to the point, simple, at the level required to
solve the task, not too much slow, not too much optimized, very easy to read,
easy to understand, not too much specific but not even too much generalized.
Sometimes solutions in other languages are tagged as derived from the Python
and D solutions, this means the D code was readable enough, this is how very
publicly visible D code has to be. Readability first, generality but not too
much of it, low level when necessary, high level when possible. It's a matter
of style. People run away from C++ because sometimes it has an image of a messy
and over-engineered language. I suggest to avoid this trap in D c
ode that everyone sees.
Very well stated. The one example to find (one only, for the home page) is thus
one piece of code shows clearly shows the *differential* advantage(s) of D over
well known programming languages. Else, it's useless.
Denis
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