Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-28 Thread Klaim
Thanks for your answers everybody! Andrei> Ok so I guess I'll continue with the book. I only installed the last dmd and VS2010 extension to work with so I'm not yet hitting the missing features. Gour> Ok thanks I'll read that. Caligo> Yes, some kind of roadmap would help. When a release is planned

Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/27/10 2:39 PM, Brad Roberts wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: P.S. I suggest you use the NNTP (newsgroup) interface; I've heard the mailing list has delays. To wit, I'm only seeing your post now although it seems to have been sent a few hours ago. Only the very firs

Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Caligo
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Klaim wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a C++ and game developpement enthousiast and I'm insterested in D as a > potential language to use for my game developpements. > > I bought the book "The D Programming Language" on Amazon as pre-command and > got one of the early no-auth

Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Gour
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:12:53 +0100 >> "Klaim" == Klaim wrote: Klaim> So my question is simply : how much is the book outdated now? I had somewhat similar question some time ago...check this thread: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/is_it_possible_to_learn_D_2_124696.html

Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Brad Roberts
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > P.S. I suggest you use the NNTP (newsgroup) interface; I've heard the mailing > list has delays. To wit, I'm only seeing your post now although it seems to > have been sent a few hours ago. Only the very first post from each person for each group

Re: "The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/27/10 9:12 AM, Klaim wrote: Hi! I'm a C++ and game developpement enthousiast and I'm insterested in D as a potential language to use for my game developpements. I bought the book "The D Programming Language" on Amazon as pre-command and got one of the early no-author-name-on-front edition

"The D Programming Language" : Still valid?

2010-12-27 Thread Klaim
Hi! I'm a C++ and game developpement enthousiast and I'm insterested in D as a potential language to use for my game developpements. I bought the book "The D Programming Language" on Amazon as pre-command and got one of the early no-author-name-on-front edition. I started to read the chapter qui