I don't mean to be precious, but would the introduction of a separate discussion group be welcomed? I find that there are a lot of new posts which, although I'm sure they're interesting, are not germane to D itself, and therefore would be best placed in an ancillary space.

Matthew

Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I don't mean to be precious, but would the introduction of a separate
> discussion group be welcomed? I find that there are a lot of new posts
> which, although I'm sure they're interesting, are not germane to D itself,
> and therefore would be best placed in an ancillary space.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 

From my perspective, the vast majority of the posts seem to be on-topic to D: either asking how to do something in D or suggesting how something should be done in D.  A few posts stray into the region of general language design (links to other languages mostly), but since D is still being designed that doesn't seem inappropriate.  I can usually tell from a quick glance at the subject line whether the contents are going to be interesting to me.

This group seems to have a wide variety of participants.  Most of the posts seem to fall into two categories:  Design and Use.  I'd guess 90% of the messages relate to design.  10% relate to use.

I've found most of the language design discussions to be mostly over my head, but I can tell they deal with important issues.  Personally, I'm more interested in the "using D" messages because I'm inexperienced with the C/C++ languages and I'd rather skip learning them and go directly to using D.  It's been a pretty steep learning curve, but I've made some progress.  As far as I can tell, D would be as good of a first language as anything once there's a tutorial available.

Justin

J C Calvarese wrote:
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I agree fully!!!