On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:52:30 UTC, Almighty Bob wrote:
On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:11:46 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 21:02:39 UTC, Almighty Bob wrote:
The language reference is pretty abysmal too. EG...
It has that feel all the way through. You go looking for
things and they never seem to be where you expect, or they
are so tersely explained, it feels like it's a reference for
people already experts in D. Which is fine if that's what
it's meant to be ... but if you want to attract new people
you need a "guided tour" rather than a "technical spec".
The language reference is a reference; it's supposed to be a
technical spec, not a starting point. That said, the only
links to starting points are the book (which isn't free) and
the "Programming in D" pages at
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html (which are now buried in
the Articles tab)
Well I figured that was probably the case.
It's just not very smart to have that as the only obvious guide
to the language on the home page.
There's a "Books and Articles" dropdown on the frontpage, Ali's
book is the first link.
It's very good. I refer to it constantly.
