Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 09:51 +, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > Hi. > > First question - can anyone recommend git / Gitlab training > providers in HK and London? Two distinct audiences - highly > intelligent people that may or may not really program, and > experienced

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. First question - can anyone recommend git / Gitlab training providers in HK and London? Two distinct audiences - highly intelligent people that may or may not really program, and experienced developers with a finance

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-02 Thread Radu via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Second question. Lots of people these days start to program to solve their problems at work but they may never have been shown the basic principles of design, structuring and maintenance of their code. If I could give them one

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:18 AM Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:15 AM Guillaume Piolat via > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > > > > > > Second question. Lots of people these days start to program to > > >

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. First question - can anyone recommend git / Gitlab training providers in HK and London? Two distinct audiences - highly intelligent people that may or may not really program, and experienced developers with a finance

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:15 AM Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > > > > Second question. Lots of people these days start to program to > > solve their problems at work but they may never have been shown > > the

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Second question. Lots of people these days start to program to solve their problems at work but they may never have been shown the basic principles of design, structuring and maintenance of their code. If I could give them one

Re: OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread evilrat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 09:51:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Second question. Lots of people these days start to program to solve their problems at work but they may never have been shown the basic principles of design, structuring and maintenance of their code. If I could give them one

OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

2019-05-01 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi. First question - can anyone recommend git / Gitlab training providers in HK and London? Two distinct audiences - highly intelligent people that may or may not really program, and experienced developers with a finance background that could benefit from knowing how to use git properly

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-09 Thread Jim Hewes via Digitalmars-d-learn
Thanks for those references! I'm also interested in looking through those. I had computation theory in college a long time ago but never took a compiler course. On 11/7/2017 5:26 AM, Tony wrote: Author Allen Holub has made his out-of-print book, Compiler Design in C, available as a free

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-07 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-learn
Author Allen Holub has made his out-of-print book, Compiler Design in C, available as a free pdf download: http://holub.com/compiler/ And Torben Mogensen is doing the same with his more recent Basics of Compiler Design: http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-07 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 01:30:14 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 20:28:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 15:51:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote: People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will program your own programming

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-06 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 20:28:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 15:51:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote: People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will program your own programming language are lying. Well, you most certainly can write your own

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-04 Thread Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out? A few more resources on writing a frontend (lexer, syntactic

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-04 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 15:51:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote: People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will program your own programming language are lying. Well, you most certainly can write your own programming language after reading about 30% of the dragon book, but I think

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-04 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:24:01 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-02 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out? You don't need to read books to write a compiler, a bit of

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-02 Thread Igor via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 03:55:27 UTC, Michael V. Franklin wrote: On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Michael V. Franklin via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out? I found this to be quite helpful:

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 01/11/2017 11:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, November 01, 2017 20:53:44 Dr. Assembly via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Alexandre via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:56:22 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, November 01, 2017 20:53:44 Dr. Assembly via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a > little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which > books/resources do you recommend to start out? Well, if you're looking to actually buy

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 11/01/2017 01:53 PM, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out? I haven't read it but one compiler bible is "the dragon book":

Re: Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Dr. Assembly via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote: Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out? I'd like something on back-end too, for example, code

Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

2017-11-01 Thread Dr. Assembly via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which books/resources do you recommend to start out?

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:01:13 -0700, alex aless...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am considering diving into D and would like to start with a book. I found the following two (if you have any other recommendation, please do recommend)

Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread alex
Hi, I am considering diving into D and would like to start with a book. I found the following two (if you have any other recommendation, please do recommend) http://www.amazon.com/The-Programming-Language-Andrei-Alexandrescu/dp/0321635361/

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread John Colvin
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:01:15 UTC, alex wrote: Hi, I am considering diving into D and would like to start with a book. I found the following two (if you have any other recommendation, please do recommend)

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread alex
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:02:29 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Go with Andrei's book. It's more relevant to D today. Thanks for the prompt response Adam. How come its more relevant? If my scarce D knowledge does not mislead me Tango is the more recent library anyhow. So I'd assume the

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:05:43 -0700, alex aless...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:02:29 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Go with Andrei's book. It's more relevant to D today. Thanks for the prompt response Adam. How come its more relevant? If my scarce D knowledge does not mislead

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread alex
Thanks for the link John! On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:09:32 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: That is actually incorrect. Tango was a replacement for the Phobos Standard Library in D1 to expand on the thin capabilities of the library at the time. In D2 (current D implementation) Phobos is now

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Dicebot
P.S. I'd recommend to start with free Ali's book :http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html and then go for Andrei's The D Programming Language. It is probably best short combat course one can get.

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Dicebot
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:09:32 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: That is actually incorrect. Tango was a replacement for the Phobos Standard Library in D1 to expand on the thin capabilities of the library at the time. In D2 (current D implementation) Phobos is now the default standard library

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:12:57 UTC, alex wrote: Thanks for the link John! On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:09:32 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: That is actually incorrect. Tango was a replacement for the Phobos Standard Library in D1 to expand on the thin capabilities of the library at

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Tourist
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:12:57 UTC, alex wrote: So Tango replaced Phobos, just to be replaced by Phobos later? Tango was an unofficial replacement :) What are/were the fundamental differences? Why two libraries? This admittedly kind of confused me :-D Phobos sucked, so people made

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread alex
Thanks everyone for your comments. I went ahead and ordered TDPL. But could anyone give me a concrete example, how Tango was better than Phobos and what improved now? I just would like to see what the main differences were and so on . just something short :)

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
First of all, Learn to Tango with D, while being a very good book (I have it right here on my bookshelf) is rather old at this point, much older than The D Programming Language. It's based on D1, which is mostly outdated and replaced by D2 at this point. On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:12:56 +0200 alex

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread alex
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:47:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's all historical information, though. History very often helps to understand the present :) Thanks for the insight, especially concerning Tango with D

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:41:10 +0200 alex aless...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for your comments. I went ahead and ordered TDPL. But could anyone give me a concrete example, how Tango was better than Phobos Tango had things and features and stuff to use. Phobos...didn't. Phobos had