On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 14:13:17 UTC, slectr wrote:
I want to make software like krita inkscape and my own
language using D
Although i previosly learned C and C++ i left it in the middle
and for some reasons i dont want to learn those so i searched
for alternatives and found D but there
On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 15:30:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Former-Python-Developers-ebook/dp/B08MD7ZB2X
Anyone read it?
From the thread title, I thought you were asking about my book!
On Friday, 14 May 2021 at 15:30:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Former-Python-Developers-ebook/dp/B08MD7ZB2X
Anyone read it?
Haven't read it, the title has me at the first five words though.
On Wednesday, April 04, 2018 04:54:50 Ali via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I am going through the Learning D book by Michael Parker
> So every now and then I will make post about the book
> either critics of the book, book content or questions
>
>
> First critic
> chapter 2 - the special package mo
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 04:54:50 UTC, Ali wrote:
at first i though package.d is special name, as in i must call
the file package.d or this trick or idiom to work
the trick was to have one module that public import all the
modules you import as group in other modules
so instead of impor
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:10:33 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe
wrote:
While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's
been mostly API level code cobbling work.
Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the fact
that I
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 02:41:16 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mayuresh Kathe via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's
book as soon as
I get my copy.
BTW, how come all of you ad
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mayuresh Kathe via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's book as soon as
> I get my copy.
> BTW, how come all of you address him as Andrei?
Heh -- possibly you haven't interacted on international technical
mailin
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's been
mostly API level code cobbling work.
Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the fact
that I don't have much of a grasp over the foundational stuff
(
On 12/02/2014 09:15 AM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> BTW, how come all of you address him as Andrei?
> Is this group that informal?
First name is the normal way of referring to colleagues here in the US,
at least in Silicon Valley. Even the CEOs, board members, and all the
other "top" people are re
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:46:04PM +, Mayuresh Kathe via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:33:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> >On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:15:28 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> >>Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's book
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:33:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:15:28 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe
wrote:
Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's
book as soon as I get my copy.
No need to wait that long. I second H.S. Teoh's suggestion to
reco
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:15:28 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's
book as soon as I get my copy.
No need to wait that long. I second H.S. Teoh's suggestion to
recommend reading this book too:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/intro.html
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:10:57 UTC, Tobias Pankrath
wrote:
Thanks for the welcome. :)
I think I'll just work through Discrete Mathematics and
Machine Organization before approaching Mr. Alexandrescu's
book, would take up only 6 ~ 8 months of my time, and would be
really good for me i
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:15:28 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
BTW, how come all of you address him as Andrei?
Is this group that informal?
Asking, just so that I don't become the odd man. :)
This group is definitely that informal. First names are the norm
here.
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 17:04:57 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:54:50 UTC, CraigDillabaugh
wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe
wrote:
clip
Thanks for the welcome. :)
I think I'll just work through Discrete Mathematics and Ma
Thanks for the welcome. :)
I think I'll just work through Discrete Mathematics and Machine
Organization before approaching Mr. Alexandrescu's book, would
take up only 6 ~ 8 months of my time, and would be really good
for me in the long term.
No! If you know how to program and want to learn D
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:54:50 UTC, CraigDillabaugh
wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe
wrote:
While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's
been mostly API level code cobbling work.
Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the f
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 16:38:34 UTC, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's been
mostly API level code cobbling work.
Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the fact
that I don't have much of a grasp over the foundational stuff
(
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:38:33PM +, Mayuresh Kathe via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> While I have been a programmer for close to 23 years, it's been mostly
> API level code cobbling work.
>
> Would like to learn "D", but am a bit intimidated by the fact that I
> don't have much of a grasp ov
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 13:25 +, Ryan via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…]
> I'm thinking I will probably create a more in depth GTK+ hello
> world that attempts to covers some of the current D landscape.
Exactly what I am doing :-)
> For instance I now understand how DMD and RDMD work and how
On 8/27/2014 10:25 PM, Ryan wrote:
DSSS, XfBuild, Bud, RDMD, or premake4. Especially DSSS vs DUB. Is DUB a
replacement for DSSS?
You can look at it that way. It's both a package manager and build tool.
DSSS was abandoned long ago. Why not other tools -- XfBuild is no longer
maintained (AF
Thanks again for all the responses. I've made tremendous
progress understanding the D build process.
I'm thinking I will probably create a more in depth GTK+ hello
world that attempts to covers some of the current D landscape.
For instance I now understand how DMD and RDMD work and how they
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
What IDE should I use? I'm not big fan of Eclipse, although if
I had to use it this wouldn't be a dealbreaker. Give me
something easy and lightweight, unless you've got a GUI builder
(this is why I started with MonoDevelop, though this isn
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 16:46 +, Ryan via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…]
> What Widget library should I use? I started with GTKD, but since
> there are no tutorials does this mean nobody actually does this?
> Should I use DWT? What about QT?
GtkD should work for you. I would have preferred
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 18:09 +, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[…]
> I have no experience with GtkD, but with DUB you shouldn't need
> to mess with .lib files at all. DUB automatically downloads and
> compiles any libraries specified with dub.json, *and* links them
> with the compile
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 17:09 +, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
[…]
> I don't use an IDE, but MonoD seems to be the most recommended
> cross-platform option. It has a wiki page here if it helps:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Mono-D
I just tried following the instructions at http://wiki.dlan
On 8/26/2014 5:37 AM, Ryan wrote:
Then I thought I'd learn dub. Well, this is NOT going well... I did a
git clone of gtk-d, then tried to build with dub (renamed the
package.json to dub.json), and it told me "Conflicting package
multi-reference" I have no clue and I've tried removing packag
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Me: Software developer for 30 years.
What IDE should I use? I'm not big fan of Eclipse, although if
If you are an Eclipse (CDT) user for C/C++, then you will find a
very similar plugin for D, called DDT, here:
http://code.google.com/
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 02:13:04AM +, Weaseldog via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Not sure how up your alley this is, but vim support for D is
> excellent.
I use vim for D.
T
--
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. -- BSD Games' Fortune
Not sure how up your alley this is, but vim support for D is
excellent.
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 20:37:16 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Then I thought I'd learn dub. Well, this is NOT going well...
I did a git clone of gtk-d, then tried to build with dub
(renamed the package.json to dub.json), and it told me
"Conflicting package multi-reference" I have no clue and
I'v
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 18:12:25 UTC, Colin wrote:
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 17:57:54 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Anyone know MonoDevelop?
Why is the "Edit References" context menu item missing. I
have it at the top (Project->Edit References...) but when I
click it nothing happens. Grrr.
I co
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 17:57:54 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Anyone know MonoDevelop?
Why is the "Edit References" context menu item missing. I have
it at the top (Project->Edit References...) but when I click it
nothing happens. Grrr.
I couldnt figure it out either tbh (creating dub projects usi
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 17:47:47 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Thanks for both responses. This is the information I was
looking for.
I have DMD, GTK# (For MonoDevelop), MonoDevelop, MonoD, dubs,
and GTKD installed.
I've got some things to compile... So the crux of my issue is
that I can't figure o
Anyone know MonoDevelop?
Why is the "Edit References" context menu item missing. I have
it at the top (Project->Edit References...) but when I click it
nothing happens. Grrr.
Thanks for both responses. This is the information I was looking
for.
I have DMD, GTK# (For MonoDevelop), MonoDevelop, MonoD, dubs, and
GTKD installed.
I've got some things to compile... So the crux of my issue is
that I can't figure out how to link lib files in MonoDevelop. I
wonder if t
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Me: Software developer for 30 years.
So perhaps this is old fashion, but I wanted to start using D
by whipping together nice little personal utilities.
I tried installing MonoDevelop and Mono-D. I can't even figure
out the basics, such
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Me: Software developer for 30 years.
So perhaps this is old fashion, but I wanted to start using D
by whipping together nice little personal utilities.
I tried installing MonoDevelop and Mono-D. I can't even figure
out the basics, such
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 00:05:35 UTC, Goran Petrevski wrote:
You might want to look into XOmB:
https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
Isn't it written in D1? Not sure about that...
So what if it is written in D1? :) It should not be a big problem
to "port" it to D2.
Second interesting pr
You might want to look into XOmB:
https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
Isn't it written in D1? Not sure about that...
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:38:31 UTC, Goran Petrevski
wrote:
I'm new in the programming, systems programming especially, but
I want to learn D more as a systems programming language and by
that I mean avoiding libraries at all. My goal is to write a
simple operating system totaly in D (
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 03:36:30 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
You won't have access to the GC so a lot of language features
(like slices) are out of the question.
Slices are fine, it's just the slice concatenation operators that
must be disabled. This is easily accomplished by simply no
On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 03:36:30 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
I don't know how easy it would be to get a bootloader to call a
D kernel although it has been done.
Pretty easy if you use GRUB. You can just compile a regular linux
program with a linker script and load it right up.
My min
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:38:31 UTC, Goran Petrevski
wrote:
I'm new in the programming, systems programming especially, but
I want to learn D more as a systems programming language and by
that I mean avoiding libraries at all. My goal is to write a
simple operating system totaly in D (
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:13:26 UTC, Stefan Larsson
wrote:
Hello,
I have started my journey to learn D after using C/C++ and
Python for many years. I am studying the book "The
D-Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu and I have tried
to search the D-newsgroups for proper advice
On 2013-10-01 19:32:05 +, qznc said:
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I confess that I don't understand why so many people are fixated on having a
standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that most everyone
disagrees on what counts as good
On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 01:19:21 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
For me, if the program didn't format brackets on the same line
I wouldn't use it.
I'm guessing you don't use druntime or phobos then :p
On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 10:38:10 qznc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 03:28:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 03:19:19 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> >> For me, if the program didn't format brackets on the same line
> >> I
> >> wouldn't use it. If you
On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 03:28:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 03:19:19 Jesse Phillips wrote:
For me, if the program didn't format brackets on the same line
I
wouldn't use it. If you start making things configurable, may
as
well improve indent's support fo
On Tuesday, October 01, 2013 21:32:05 qznc wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > I confess that I don't understand why so many people are
> > fixated on having a
> > standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that
> > most everyone
> >
On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 03:19:19 Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 19:32:08 UTC, qznc wrote:
> > On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I confess that I don't understand why so many people are
> >> fixated on having a
> >> stan
On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 19:32:08 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I confess that I don't understand why so many people are
fixated on having a
standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that
most everyone
disagrees on what
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I confess that I don't understand why so many people are
fixated on having a
standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that
most everyone
disagrees on what counts as good style. What little we have in
terms of o
Stefan Larsson:
1. It makes it easier for myself to write code in a consistent
style and I would automatically write in a similar style as
everybody else. It removes one degree of freedom from my mind.
2. It simplifies education of teams where it is desired that
all members write code in the
On 2013-09-29 07:49:08 +, Jonathan M Davis said:
On Sunday, September 29, 2013 09:13:26 Stefan Larsson wrote:
Hello,
I have started my journey to learn D after using C/C++ and Python for
many years. I am studying the book "The D-Programming Language" by
Andrei Alexandrescu and I have tried
http://dlang.org/dstyle.html )))
DUB like other tools have a standard directory layout to
accelerate a build process/configuration.
DStyle and other guide lines are general recommendations only. If
you have better style/case, you can describe and use it.
On Sunday, September 29, 2013 09:13:26 Stefan Larsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have started my journey to learn D after using C/C++ and Python for
> many years. I am studying the book "The D-Programming Language" by
> Andrei Alexandrescu and I have tried to search the D-newsgroups for
> proper advice
On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 13:45:50 UTC, Daemon wrote:
The only thing that remains is patience I guess.
That, buy Andrei's book and ask questions here. :)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Programming-Language-Andrei-Alexandrescu/dp/0321635361
Thanks for all the fantastic replies, now I'm really glad I asked.
Ali, I'm already reading your book and it's pretty good. I've
also ordered The D Programming language, so that should be a big
help. The only thing that remains is patience I guess. I won't
give up on D so easily this time.
T
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:01:54AM +0200, bearophile wrote:
> H. S. Teoh:
>
> >The way to improve your coding skills is just to write
> >lots and lots of code. The more you write, the better
> >you'll get at it.
>
> Doing lot of exercise is not nearly enough. You also must do them
> "smartly". An
H. S. Teoh:
The way to improve your coding skills is just to write
lots and lots of code. The more you write, the better
you'll get at it.
Doing lot of exercise is not nearly enough. You also must do them
"smartly". And it's far from obvious what that means. And most
schools, movies, TV and
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:50:05PM +0200, Daemon wrote:
> Hi there. I am mesmerized by D and I would love to start using it to
> really learn programming. I've tried it a year ago but failed
> miserably and went back to C#. The problem I have is that I've been
> using C# and I feel it left me cripp
On 06/06/2013 01:50 PM, Daemon wrote:
> I am mesmerized by D and I would love to start using it to really learn
> programming.
I agree with bearophile. I think D is easier to learn than C++.
> I decided that it would probably be best to start learning C++ and then,
> when I have solid understan
Daemon:
Thanks for any responses
Let's see. Your post is not longwinded. You don't need to learn
C++ to learn D.
On the other hand C++ has more books and free documentation
around. But I think learning C++ is harder than D, because D is
meant to be cleaned up compared to C++.
Today if you k
On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 19:59:45 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote:
Al 30/08/12 21:32, En/na Paul ha escrit:
What would be the best way to learn this language? I live in
Atlanta. I program and script as needed. Okay, at this point
I would classify myself as a hack. But I love writing my own
exe
Al 30/08/12 21:32, En/na Paul ha escrit:
> What would be the best way to learn this language? I live in Atlanta. I
> program and script as needed. Okay, at this point I would classify myself as
> a hack. But I love writing my own exe utilities. It's just cool, fun, and
> powerful. But I hav
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:51:21AM +0200, Paul wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 13:10:47 UTC, Mark wrote:
> >Yeah I bought the book recently and ran into an issue very quickly
> >into it. But this error I keep getting keeps bugging me. Could really
> >use an explanation on why its not compil
On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 13:10:47 UTC, Mark wrote:
Yeah I bought the book recently and ran into an issue very
quickly into it. But this error I keep getting keeps bugging
me. Could really use an explanation on why its not compiling.
Here is the code.
Mark I started a thread along this
Mark:
look at that. it says D1. I downloaded both D1 and D2. Better
get rid of D1 then. I feel like such an idiot. THank you for
the help.
You aren't an idiot, it's not your fault.
In some months D1 compilers will be buried deeply in some sites,
so your problem will (mostly) stop happening t
I feel like such an idiot.
don't worry. you're not the first and not the last being confused by this.
Are you using the D1 compiler..? It works on dmd 2.057,8 and 9
at least.
Just write dmd, and look at the top for the compiler version.
look at that. it says D1. I downloaded both D1 and D2. Better get
rid of D1 then. I feel like such an idiot. THank you for the help.
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:24:12 +0200, Mark wrote:
Are you using the D1 compiler..? It works on dmd 2.057,8 and 9 at least.
Just write dmd, and look at the top for the compiler version.
look at that. it says D1. I downloaded both D1 and D2. Better get rid of
D1 then. I feel like such an idio
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:46 +0200, Mark wrote:
Yeah I bought the book recently and ran into an issue very quickly into
it. But this error I keep getting keeps bugging me. Could really use an
explanation on why its not compiling. Here is the code.
/*
Compute heights in centimeters for a
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:10:46 -0400, Mark wrote:
Yeah I bought the book recently and ran into an issue very quickly into
it. But this error I keep getting keeps bugging me. Could really use an
explanation on why its not compiling. Here is the code.
/*
Compute heights in centimeters for a
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