Steve Teale wrote:
Georg Wrede Wrote:
Things we have (like every binary release [and I assume, an implicit
promise of keeping it that way] downloadable forever), the source code
to /both/ the front end and the back end distributed every time -- for
both reading example usage, learning by looking at unittests, and for a
deep understanding of both the compiler and the library code in detail,
... it's stuff like this we don't advertise enough. (( Of course, not to
mention actual language highlights that are really smashing! But they're
outside of this post.))
And the parts of D that are unique, we don't see them splashed all over
the net either. It can and should be possible without the PR budget of
Oracle, too.
Anybody over 40 knows that Pascal was an excellent language for
programmming classes. (Yes, it was even created for that purpose,
originally.) But then, nobody at all knows that out of all "known"
languages, D is (by FAR!!) the one a university /should/ choose as the
introductory language. Hah, and even fewer can imagine that D is the
language they should use in advanced classes! And, thus, virtually
nobody knows that being blessed with having originally learned a
language that has the strength to carry you all the way from intro to
PhD, makes you seriously privileged. And with a robust and solid mother
tongue like this, forages into C++, Java, Ruby, Haskell, Scheme, ASM,
and the like, will seem like a breeze, and don't destroy or *undo* /the
very foundations of/ your world as a programmer.
Yes! I may continue to bitch, but you are so right. D is extraordinarily cool!
Poa sana as I could say in the domain of my current residency.
Somehow we have to advance the announcements and learn newsgroups so that they are
primary, and change perceptions such that the "suggestions for the next version of
D" newsgroup - currently the main newsgroup - is a specialist affair that most
readers think they can safely ignore.
I agree. When someone clicks the "D Forum" link on the front page, they
should get to the D.learn newsgroup. Also, said link should be more
prominent, not tucked away at the bottom of the menu.
-Lars
