Re: Input handling? (newbie alert!)

2010-09-12 Thread Cavalary
Yeah, one of the reasons why it made sense to me I guess, as the term's "informatica" in Romanian, so the mental link was instant even if I probably never heard it used in English before. A programming language that doesn't put effort into teaching people how to use it isn't exactly likely to end

Re: Input handling? (newbie alert!)

2010-09-11 Thread Cavalary
Hm, to me "informatics" made sense :) Not sure if I ever heard it used in English, but it sounds more suitable than "computer science", which (no matter how it's officially used) sounds like it would include everything that deals with computers, so hardware as well. As for what Jesse said, yeah, k

Re: Input handling? (newbie alert!)

2010-09-10 Thread Cavalary
Well, I was just looking through examples, and if those used scanf I assumed that was the way to go... Thanks, actually learned a few more things out of this (auto and try). No idea what the parameter after catch is supposed to do, what cast is or how to use parse since it was just mentioned, but a

Input handling? (newbie alert!)

2010-09-09 Thread Cavalary
Now I guess this has been asked and answered 1000 times before around here, but looking through discussions that don't even seem to thread properly (unless you're in the archive) would just confuse me more, and the few attempts at D tutorials for people who are not already skilled C++ programmers d