On Mon 07/10/2013 21:18, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation.
Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages.
This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expect most people
to
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:24:16 +0200, qznc wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 20:22:39 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
It is a very nice web-site, but the main column should be wider.
Sometimes the source code floats over to the second column...
Hm, not here. I suspect a weird font selection for
On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 08:23:16 UTC, Tourist wrote:
On Saturday, 12 October 2013 at 23:34:11 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 22:39:26 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ofm56/pragmatic_d_tutorial/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6548111
Discuss!
Andrei
On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 13:09:45 UTC, qznc wrote:
I would not consider this criticism, since most other
languages (Python,Rust,Go) require C wrappers for C++ libraries.
I meant a discussion on how to compare D to C++. Can't tell if
it's criticism or philosophy. Well... this topic is
On 10/14/13 9:23 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ofm56/pragmatic_d_tutorial/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6548111
Discuss!
Andrei
One interesting request on reddit: Any chance there's a PDF version of
this available for reading on the
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 20:49:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/14/13 9:23 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ofm56/pragmatic_d_tutorial/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6548111
Discuss!
Andrei
One interesting request on reddit:
On Saturday, 12 October 2013 at 23:34:11 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 22:39:26 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to
reddit.
Too early for more publicity, I think.
Now
http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/basics.html
You make it sound like linking with C++ libraries is an easy
task. I think, I know how to express difference between C++ and
D: newer versions of C++ can compile legacy C++ code, while D
drops C++ compatibility for language redesign, which leads to
very
On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 09:42:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/basics.html
You make it sound like linking with C++ libraries is an easy
task. I think, I know how to express difference between C++ and
D: newer versions of C++ can compile legacy C++ code, while D
drops
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 00:29:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
Sometimes D is criticised, because it is not simple language,
in contrast to Go, Rust, Lisp, or Scala. However, a D
programmer sees no problem and actually likes his big toolbox.
I wouldn't call any of those languages simple, except
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 22:39:26 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to
reddit.
Too early for more publicity, I think.
Now every chapter has some text. Feel free to publicize it.
On 10/12/13 4:34 PM, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 22:39:26 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to reddit.
Too early for more publicity, I think.
Now every chapter has some text.
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/documentation.html
Are doxygen comments still endorsed?
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/idiomatic.html
Describing a range as a pair of iterators requires a reader with
C++ background; the beginning of the tutorial implied wider
audience. For other people it
I used the QT bindings to make a transparent desktop widget once. So they
have worked but I'm not sure if they do with the current compiler. I'll see
if I can find my old code and see what I have to do to get it to work.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 07:04:07 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/documentation.html
Are doxygen comments still endorsed?
I am not aware about any counter arguments. Are there some
downsides? I noticed that Returns: is rarely used in Phobos.
On 2013-10-09 10:37, qznc wrote:
I am not aware about any counter arguments. Are there some downsides? I
noticed that Returns: is rarely used in Phobos.
D has built-in support for documentation comments, called ddoc:
http://dlang.org/ddoc
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 13:59:22 UTC, Meta wrote:
I haven't really thought about this before, but it's becoming
increasingly difficult for me to come up with a contemporary
simple language. It seems most modern languages are creeping
towards more complexity.
I heard, Lua interpreter
On Oct 9, 2013 12:31 PM, Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 13:59:22 UTC, Meta wrote:
I haven't really thought about this before, but it's becoming
increasingly difficult for me to come up with a contemporary simple
language. It seems most modern languages are creeping
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:18:38 +0200, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation.
Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other languages.
This means nothing about loops or structs, because I expect
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 20:22:39 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
It is a very nice web-site, but the main column should be wider.
Sometimes the source code floats over to the second column...
Hm, not here. I suspect a weird font selection for the code.
I plan to redesign it at some point
On 2013-10-07 21:18, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation.
Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
For GUI libraries there's DWT as well. Works on Windows and Linux, uses
native drawing and doesn't have any runtime dependencies expect for the
On 2013-10-07 21:18, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation.
Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
Run-time errors
You might want to add that D automatically handles uncaught exceptions
and prints a stacktrace when one is thrown.
Optimization
I
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/philosophy.html
Nick's quote with alien woodwork(?) terminology looks not good.
An IT professional as a foreign learner may not encounter such
words for his entire life (all other text around it looks fine).
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/basics.html
One important C#-specific difference is that there's no using
statement (which is quite viral in C# as a way of resource
management), and scope statement can be used instead of it.
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 01:38:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Lisp is practically the definition of language minimalism,
AIUI. But I'd
maybe replace Rust/Python with JavaScript. JavaScript is
extremely
simple. (Which is a large part of what makes using it such a
pain, but I
digress.)
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 13:59:22 UTC, Meta wrote:
I haven't really thought about this before, but it's becoming
increasingly difficult for me to come up with a contemporary
simple language. It seems most modern languages are creeping
towards more complexity.
More simple languages are
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more
documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other
languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I
expect most people to know this stuff. I do not consider D
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more
documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other
languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
Wreck it! :)
The only thing that I don't like about it so far is that it's not
on wiki.dlang.org. If you put it there it will be easier for
learners to discover it, and for the rest of us to help writing
it.
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more
documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other
languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I
On 10/7/13 12:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:34:11 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
while I got a chuckle out of D is what C++ wanted to be., I might
omit this. Insulting C++ isn't likely a great way to attract the C++
crowd, which is one of our major target audiences.
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
OP: any chance to adjust that page? Then we'll announce to
reddit.
I don't think it's ready.
If you want to promote a tutorial, I think that (at least for
now) it should be the book of Ali Çehreli.
Also I thought that
On 10/07/2013 01:42 PM, Tourist wrote:
the book of Ali Çehreli.
Also I thought that maybe it's worth to turn his book into an
interactive tutorial.
I thought about the same thing just the other day. :) I want to finish
the translation first, which I really am doing.
To the OP: I will add
A note on memory management: you can do your own reference
counting with structs, and it works reasonably well.
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:36:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/7/13 12:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:34:11 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
while I got a chuckle out of D is what C++ wanted to be., I
might
omit this. Insulting C++ isn't likely a great way to
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 20:21:17 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
Wreck it! :)
The only thing that I don't like about it so far is that it's
not on wiki.dlang.org. If you put it there it will be easier
for learners to discover it, and for
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 22:00:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
A note on memory management: you can do your own reference
counting with structs, and it works reasonably well.
Port shared_ptr (or intrusive_ptr) to D?
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more
documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in other
languages. This means nothing about loops or structs, because I
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:47:13 +0200
Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:34:11 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
while I got a chuckle out of D is what C++ wanted to be., I
might omit this. Insulting C++ isn't likely a great way to
attract the C++ crowd, which is
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:29:32 +0200
Meta jared...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 19:18:40 UTC, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more
documentation. Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
It is aimed at people who can already program well in
On 10/07/2013 03:18 PM, qznc wrote:
I believe one of the things D needs right now is more documentation.
Therefore, I started writing a tutorial.
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/d-tut-0.1/index.html
Thanks for writing that. I found it useful already.
It would be nice if there is a Last Updated
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