Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider distribution.

Here it is as it stands now:

	http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf

It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.

I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?

I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly interested in filling in the history section.

you can email me at:

 shro8822 @at uidaho .dot edu

Bill Venners (editor at www.artima.com) has been looking for an introduction to D article. This may be ideal.

Congratulation, your paper is now in very good shape.

While I haven't been able to find content error, a remark on the shape: there are quite a few examples which are not on the same page than the text which refers to them, and worse the examples appears after the text which refers to them.

This happens often with text generated by LateX (checking in the PDF properties, yup this was generated from LateX).

Personnaly I dislike this way of putting examples after their reference, of course it's a personnal taste.

Regards,
RenoX

renox wrote:
> Congratulation, your paper is now in very good shape.
> 
> While I haven't been able to find content error, a remark on the shape: there are
> quite a few examples which are not on the same page than the text which refers to
> them, and worse the examples appears after the text which refers to them.
> 
> This happens often with text generated by LateX (checking in the PDF properties,
> yup this was generated from LateX).
> 
> Personnaly I dislike this way of putting examples after their reference, of course
> it's a personnal taste.
> 
> Regards,
> RenoX


Thank you.


Yah, I had a lot of fun getting the version I tuned in to look good (the section order depended more on how the layout worked than anything). Personally, I like the example to follow the text, but only if they are right after the text and that seems to be hard to get.

BTW, what is your full name, I'd like to put it in the acknowledgments section if that is all right with you.

I think I just spotted a typo, at the top of page 3

<quote>
This aids in producing reliable
code by allowing for aspects of programs to be specified in once places and, from that specification,
implemented in several places.
</quote>

Shouldn't it be "specified in one place", not "once places"?

BCS wrote:
> Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider distribution.
> 
> Here it is as it stands now:
> 
>     http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf
> 
> It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.
> 
> I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?
> 
> I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly interested in filling in the history section.
> 
> you can email me at:
> 
>  shro8822 @at uidaho .dot edu

BCS wrote:
> Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider distribution.
> 
> Here it is as it stands now:
> 
>     http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf
> 
> It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.
> 
> I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?
> 
> I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly interested in filling in the history section.
> 
> you can email me at:
> 
>  shro8822 @at uidaho .dot edu


I haven't looked much at the content, just at the overall structure, and  the order(if it matters at all?) seems a bit off, you put very advanced features soon (templates, mixins, variadic templates,etc.), and more basic ones later (contracts, and the whole miscelleanous: foreach, op overload, unicode, etc.)

If you're interested in a sugestion for order, grouping and/or enumeration of D features, perhaps this school D presentation of mine ( http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~bdom/dee/D_apr-v2b.ppt ) is of interest. It's in portuguese but most of the terms and examples are in english so maybe it's still of use.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D