Walter: do you ever plan on writing a book on D? K&R had "The C Programming Language", Stroustrup had "The C++ Programming Language". Are you going to write a "The D Programming Language"? It would be nice if you did :)

"kinghajj" <kinghajj_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfpvkd$22cc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter: do you ever plan on writing a book on D? K&R had "The C
Programming
> Language", Stroustrup had "The C++ Programming Language". Are you going to
write
> a "The D Programming Language"? It would be nice if you did :)

Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(

In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
>
>

Nor are most of us... just try your best!

Better title:

"The D Programming Language... seriously."

-Chris S.
-Invironz

In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>"kinghajj" <kinghajj_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfpvkd$22cc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Walter: do you ever plan on writing a book on D? K&R had "The C
>Programming
>> Language", Stroustrup had "The C++ Programming Language". Are you going to
>write
>> a "The D Programming Language"? It would be nice if you did :)
>
>Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
>

In article <cfr625$2sul$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Chris S. says...
>
>Better title:
>
>"The D Programming Language... seriously."
>
No, no. no: "The D Programming Language ... Don't Laugh! Check it out!".

kinghajj schrieb:

> In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> 
>>Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
>>
> 
> Nor are most of us... just try your best!

Just that Walter probably has better things to do. Like improving the language and the compiler.

-eye

In article <cfrd7n$bp$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...
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>kinghajj schrieb:
>
>> In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>> 
>>>Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
>>>
>> 
>> Nor are most of us... just try your best!
>
>Just that Walter probably has better things to do. Like improving the language and the compiler.
>
>-eye
True, so he probably shouldn't start until the 1.0 release.

kinghajj wrote:
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> In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> >
> >Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
> >
> >
> 
> Nor are most of us... just try your best!

I think it would be better to spread the load among different persons.

A professional author (like Matthew for example) can do it much easier and without negative effects on language development and support.

The problem is perhaps that the language must be stable, otherwise this "language bible" is quickly outdated.

There should also be program examples for all important application areas to let D really shine.

-- 
Helmut Leitner    leitner@hls.via.at
Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
> I think it would be better to spread the load among different persons.
>
> A professional author (like Matthew for example) can do it much easier and without negative effects on language development and support.
>
> The problem is perhaps that the language must be stable, otherwise this "language bible" is quickly outdated.
>
> There should also be program examples for all important application areas to let D really shine.

For me also, writing articles and books always reminds me of writing term papers back in college. Not my favorite task <g>. Matthew and I have written some articles about D and they've been published in CUJ and DDJ. I have another one pending with DDJ.

But there's nothing stopping anyone here from writing articles about D. I know I'm a little weary of reading articles about C++, so much ground has been repeatedly covered by articles that newer articles seem to be mostly about esoterica, not much of interest to mainstream C++ coding. But the article space for D is vast, unexplored territory, and fertile ground for articles. And CUJ and DDJ actually pay money for articles! Their editorial staffs have indicated to me they are very receptive to articles about D.

Many of you are expert D programmers and are experts at particular kinds of D programming applications. Writing articles about your products would be straightforward, such as articles about unicode programming, gui programming, threading, templates, etc. How about it?

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cftrke$1fg1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Many of you are expert D programmers and are experts at particular kinds
of
> D programming applications. Writing articles about your products would be straightforward, such as articles about unicode programming, gui programming, threading, templates, etc. How about it?

How about one regarding the efficiency benefits of array-slicing? I might be able to cobble something together based on results from mango.http.server & mango.servlet (once 'primed', they make zero memory-allocations ~ the GC simply never runs).