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July 19, 2020 D lesson 1: learn to read and steal code | ||||
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Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source. "Spoiled" by PHP, then JavaScript,..., before deep D, I wondered how some people live by not having docs. It may sound like a no-brainer but it was not immediately obvious or comfortable to do. You can live an entire career without looking up things... Imagine you don't get that same exact treatment in a language you've come to like. It turns out sometimes reading code on how things are implemented from source code and even porting some to D teaches you things you may not otherwise have learnt any other way. The well thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all the mistakes they may have made before coming up with that implementation. I'm learning everyday in d-land. Can't say the same for some meta-programming monstrosity I've comes across though :) Also I still believe documenting code is very necessary for quick consumption of public APIs. |
August 10, 2020 Re: D lesson 1: learn to read and steal code | ||||
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Posted in reply to aberba | On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 18:39:53 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source. "Spoiled" by PHP, then JavaScript,..., before deep D, I wondered how some people live by not having docs. It may sound like a no-brainer but it was not immediately obvious or comfortable to do. You can live an entire career without looking up things... Imagine you don't get that same exact treatment in a language you've come to like.
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> It turns out sometimes reading code on how things are implemented from source code and even porting some to D teaches you things you may not otherwise have learnt any other way. The well thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all the mistakes they may have made before coming up with that implementation. I'm learning everyday in d-land.
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> Can't say the same for some meta-programming monstrosity I've comes across though :) Also I still believe documenting code is very necessary for quick consumption of public APIs.
I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this is a very accurate summary of my current journey to master Dlang :
" ... reading code on how things are implemented from source code and even porting some to D teaches you things you may not otherwise have learnt any other way... well thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all the mistakes they may have made before coming up with that implementation. ...I'm learning everyday in d-land. " .. Another outstanding Dlang feature is this forum
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August 11, 2020 Re: D lesson 1: learn to read and steal code | ||||
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Posted in reply to Andy Balba | On Monday, 10 August 2020 at 16:27:01 UTC, Andy Balba wrote: > On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 18:39:53 UTC, aberba wrote: > I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this is a very accurate summary of my current journey to master Dlang : Hope you have some fun whilst doing that. > > feature is this forum Yeah, the forum is the best! |
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