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The D Programming Language, Version 1.0
penguinblotter writes in a journal article: "Soon, Walter Bright is scheduled to release version 1.0 of the D Programming Language. D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability. D has appeared on Slashdot a few times before, and Walter has continued to add more and more features. Most Slashdot community comments in these articles have been offered on feature X or spec Y without reading through the extensive D newsgroup archives. It has been here over the past seven years where extremely gifted and experienced programmers hashed out discussions and arrived at excellent implementations of all the ideas discussed." Read on for the rest of penguinblotter's writeup.
For those with a C/C++ background, D offers:
From D's creator:
For me, it's hard to pinpoint any particular feature or two. It's the combination of features that makes the cake, not the sugar, flour or baking powder. So,
For those with a C/C++ background, D offers:
- native code speed
- extremely fast compilation times
- garbage collection (although you can manage your own memory if you want)
- OOP - by reference only, easy initialization, always virtual
- cleaner template metaprogramming syntax, more powerful templates, as well
- built-in dynamic and associative arrays, array slicing
- versioning (no preprocessor madness)
- link-compatibility with C
- nested functions
- class delegates / function pointers
- module system
- similar syntax
- No virtual machine or interpreter
- built-in unit testing and design-by-contract
From D's creator:
For me, it's hard to pinpoint any particular feature or two. It's the combination of features that makes the cake, not the sugar, flour or baking powder. So,
- My programs come together faster and have fewer bugs.
- Once written, the programs are easier to modify.
- I can do (1) and (2) without giving up performance.
Someone is making sweet love to the bandwidth. I'm downloading at less than 6KBps.
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
The same thing is happening to publishers as is happening to other media - they just don't realize it yet, but physical books are obsolete. Their business model is going to have to change just like the music industry - except I suspect they're going to find it a lot harder to accept that than even the music business has.
Their business model must change to cope with freeloaders like you. Presumably, the new business model will be "give everything you invest money in away for free", as the "new business model" mooted for the music industry is.
*sigh*
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
> Do what I do - download the books as ebooks from some illegal ebook site.
Fortunately, enough people feel this is wrong to keep book publishers in business, even for niche markets. Also, ebooks are still a pain. I'm not sure which is the more significant factor...
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