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* We need [http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From D as a second language] sections completed - C and C++ need updating - we need more examples of how to shift idiom to speak fluent D; the Python page is started but needs fleshing out; and most of the other sections are empty. | * We need [http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From D as a second language] sections completed - C and C++ need updating - we need more examples of how to shift idiom to speak fluent D; the Python page is started but needs fleshing out; and most of the other sections are empty. | ||
| + | Andrei: "One note about Walter's older C/C++ transition articles. They have good information on transition technicalities (e.g. "how do I do this thing in D that I used to do in C++?") but not a lot about the changes in coding style - making object copying not arbitrarily expensive, choosing struct vs. class, preferring pipelines and lazy to eager computation, etc. From what I see some folks come from C++, write their first D program in a stilted C++ idiom, and are left with the impression that the work is not worth the trouble." | ||
Revision as of 10:44, 31 March 2015
How you can help with D
Documentation
- std.algorithm - see forum
Wiki
- We need D as a second language sections completed - C and C++ need updating - we need more examples of how to shift idiom to speak fluent D; the Python page is started but needs fleshing out; and most of the other sections are empty.
Andrei: "One note about Walter's older C/C++ transition articles. They have good information on transition technicalities (e.g. "how do I do this thing in D that I used to do in C++?") but not a lot about the changes in coding style - making object copying not arbitrarily expensive, choosing struct vs. class, preferring pipelines and lazy to eager computation, etc. From what I see some folks come from C++, write their first D program in a stilted C++ idiom, and are left with the impression that the work is not worth the trouble."
