On 11/20/11 7:09 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
- The code sample at the top is terrible, the equivalent C is only a couple of lines longer and it doesn't show off any of what makes D better! Admittedly you're limited in what you can do here as the code needs to be fairly understandable by non-D programmers, but what's there is... Not good at all.
I'd be curious how with only a couple of lines more you address in C lines of arbitrary length and proper error handling. Same goes about C++ (in addition to the speed issue) - code that does the right thing and is not very slow is quite subtle and I doubt two out of five C++ programmers know how to write it.
- Rotating the example is a brilliant idea, particularly if powered by a continuous contest.
Yah, looking forward to that. It's going to be interesting.
- This is less about the message, but how about an "explain this" link in the corner of examples with little hints for C/C++/Java programmers, so when clicked additional comments appear in the code or bubbles appear above on hover or something, they would include small bits of text like "auto can be used in place of a type to infer the type from what is being assigned"... But better worded of course.
Good idea.
- Maybe it's just me, but I don't like the title being so long. I think "The D Programming Language" on its own is fine. The rest of it may still have a place, but it needs to be elsewhere in my opinion (even if it just moves to the line below).
I like that the main message is small enough to allow formatting in large font.
- Your summary sentence at the start reads "It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and modeling power, with safety and programmer productivity." You then go on to talk about convinience, power and efficiency... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_sentence The sentence needs to be changed to reflect what you go on to detail below - currently you're making statements without backing them up (note that you do back up most of it, not all of it though, and the subheadings don't make it obvious where you can find out more about the claims).
Agreed. I'll think of fixing that.
- convinience -> convenience
Where?
- I can't really fault the bullet points, they're a huge improvement. - I have a reasonably large screen and can't see the news section without scrolling. To me this means there is no news ;)
I'm considering moving the news on the right-hand side.
I'm starting to nit-pick, it must be getting better.
Thanks for the feedback! Andrei
