On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 08:44:00 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 01:05:37 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:52:14 +0000
MachineCode via Digitalmars-d-learn
<[email protected]>
wrote:
I don't understand. If at least it were C but java? why not D
itself?
C is *awful* as "beginner's language". never ever let people
start with
C if you don't hate 'em.
as for D... current version of D can be used, but with some
precautions. we now have excellent book by Ali. (it's great,
really! i
believe that it must be featured on the front dlang.org page!)
but java
has alot more books and tutorials.
not that D is bad for beginners, it's just has a smaller
userbase. and
all that things with "classes are reference types and structs
are not",
"empty array is not empty array but is empty array" and so on
D may be
confusing a little. it's good to have some CS background to
understood
that things.
just my cent and cent.
Better, go with FreePascal http://www.freepascal.org/ and
discover all that those features that many C advocates spread
as being close to the machine and other C only features, aren't
exclusive of it.
Alongside support for real modules, OO and genericity.
Then with a head clean of bad C influences, jump into D.
--
Paulo
Don't tell him that - he may discover Freepascal/Lazarus is the
holy grail of GUI programming and may never try D... ;-)
-=mike=-
