On 11/15/11 6:09 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
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On 11/15/11 12:37 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
The current site is a wall of text that takes too long to tell me *what*
D is. There needs to be some sort of "D at a glance" that explains what
the language is without going into details.
"The D programming language. Modern convenience. Multi-paradigm power.
Native efficiency."
It's right there at the top in big letters.
That's not bad, but I think it's an absolute shame to loose this, which I've
always thought was perfect (well, with "functional" added to the list of
progrmming styles in paragraph 2):
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D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and
high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern
languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of
quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability.
The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to machine code. It's
multiparadigm, supporting many programming styles: imperative, object
oriented, and metaprogramming. It's a member of the C syntax family, and its
appearance is very similar to that of C++. Here's a quick list of features.
It is not governed by a corporate agenda or any overarching theory of
programming.
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FWIW, I *really* think that should stay there, right between "The D
programming language. Modern convenience. Multi-paradigm power. Native
efficiency." and the "Modern convenience" section.
But that adds more text to the "wall of text". How do we address that?
The point of the current design is to have three strong points, followed
by substantiation for each. It's simple and if anything the
substantiations are too wordy. Text like the above is not bad but should
be moved to a more literary introduction to the language.
Andrei
