On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 15:56:24 UTC, Tobias Pankrath
wrote:
On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 15:20:11 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 11/1/12 9:47 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just saw this online.
The German magazine c't kompakt has an article about
cool(exotic)
programming languages, Smalltalk, Haskell and D.
Personally, I like all of them.
Here is the link for the German speaking developers.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Das-neue-c-t-kompakt-Programmieren-kann-bestellt-werden-1739221.html
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Paulo
Would love to read that. Far as I understand the article
("Exotische Sprache") is not freely available, is that correct?
Andrei
You need to buy the hole issue for 7€ here
http://www.heise-shop.de/heise-zeitschriften-vlg-g/ct-kompakt-programmieren_pid_19862609.html
It's DRM protected. I wouldn't expect to much.
I read the print version of the D article and I have to say that
I'm quite disappointed:
- The author seems to be talking about D1.0 but not about any new
D2.0 features. As a new D2 user I don't really know about the
exact differences between D1 and D2.
- For example the source code uses char[] as string type which
doesn't compile with the D2 compiler
- Descent is introduced as an IDE but it actually has been dead
for quite some time.
- Dsource.org is mentioned as a source of the D community.
- D features mentioned: dynamic and static arrays with slices,
missing preprocessor, debug/version tags, short overview of
delegates & lambdas, very short paragraph about templates, lazy
parameter, design by contract features (in/out/invariant), inline
assembler and scope statements.
- There is also a paragraph about memory managament where D is
described as garbage collector centered but allows manual memory
managment using the "delete" keyword and overloading new/delete
operators (which is deprecated, right?).
- There are no examples of phobos
- D2 features like UFCS, CTFE or just the powerful type system
including immutable aren't mentioned at all.
The author draws a very positive conclusion about D in which he
states that D allows to write high-performance code which still
looks maintainable. As target audience he sees C/C++ programmers
but also C# and Java developers.
Anyway I think the article has been written some years ago and
was just warmed up to be included in the special edition of c't.
I'll try to contact the author to point out the things mentioned
above.
Cheers,
André
