I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:

http://www.d-riven.com

Right now there are a few bits of content under the Articles and Resources sections; I hope to add more as time goes on.   The focus is currently on providing information for those new to D.

>I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:
>

You should have called it Initial D!

Howard Berkey wrote:
> I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:
> 
> http://www.d-riven.com
> 
> Right now there are a few bits of content under the Articles and Resources sections; I hope to add more as time goes on.   The focus is currently on providing information for those new to D.

From the Phobos/Tango article: "On the ther hand, the Phobos developers".
I think you meant "other hand" and "Tango developers" there ;).

Howard Berkey wrote:

> I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:
> 
> http://www.d-riven.com
> 
> Right now there are a few bits of content under the Articles and Resources sections; I hope to add more as time goes on.   The focus is currently on providing information for those new to D.

You write well and the site is nicely structured :) Nice initiative.

As for the Tango vs Phobos article; The interoperation issue may not be as dire as you suggest. With the latest release we provided the PhobosCompatibility version identifier that should make it possible to use Phobos and Tango API at the same time. The caveat is that Phobos itself needs to be modified somewhat. I believe Gregor has made an effort to that effect, aptly named tangobos, but I have a feeling that noone really feels like mantaining/supporting such a library, and thus it may mostly be an aide for those wanting to port their applications to Tango in a slow and easy manner. _If_ someone wants to mantain/support the full Phobos API on top of Tango, it should be eminently doable without too much effort, though.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

I can't believe I missed that.  My wife is going to be providing a Japanese translation, too.

Saaa Wrote:

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> >I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:
> >
> 
> You should have called it Initial D!
> 
> 

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> Howard Berkey wrote:
> 
> > I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I wish I had found in one place when I started learning D:
> > 
> > http://www.d-riven.com
> > 
> > Right now there are a few bits of content under the Articles and Resources sections; I hope to add more as time goes on.   The focus is currently on providing information for those new to D.
> 
> You write well and the site is nicely structured :) Nice initiative.
> 

Thank you!


> As for the Tango vs Phobos article; The interoperation issue may not be as dire as you suggest. With the latest release we provided the PhobosCompatibility version identifier that should make it possible to use Phobos and Tango API at the same time. The caveat is that Phobos itself needs to be modified somewhat. I believe Gregor has made an effort to that effect, aptly named tangobos, but I have a feeling that noone really feels like mantaining/supporting such a library, and thus it may mostly be an aide for those wanting to port their applications to Tango in a slow and easy manner. _If_ someone wants to mantain/support the full Phobos API on top of Tango, it should be eminently doable without too much effort, though.
> 

I wasn't aware of that, that's great news.  I'll update the article (and fix the problem Frits found!)  tonight.

Thanks,

Howard

>I can't believe I missed that.
; )

>My wife is going to be providing a Japanese translation, too.

Ah nice!
Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso
kanji?
As I also intend to translate my website into Japanese and romanji is also
interesting for non-Japanese people.


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>> >I have put up a web site where I have started collecting information I
>> >wish
>> >I had found in one place when I started learning D:
>> >
>>
>> You should have called it Initial D!
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> 

Saaa Wrote:
> Ah nice!
> Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso
> kanji?

Interesting question.  I'm sure they prefer kana and kanji, but as for how much they actually mind romanji in a pinch, I don't know.

I do know that personally as a student of Japanese, I dislike romanji.

>> Ah nice!
>> Would you happen to know whether Japanese people mind reading romanji iso
>> kanji?
>
> Interesting question.  I'm sure they prefer kana and kanji, but as for how much they actually mind romanji in a pinch, I don't know.
>
> I do know that personally as a student of Japanese, I dislike romanji.

For me it is the other way around, if more websites were in romanji iso kanjia  I would have alot more website I could more easily access.

Why do I get a feeling that D has a big Japanese base? (Japanese or
Japanese-interested)
Why is this?

Saaa wrote:
> Why do I get a feeling that D has a big Japanese base? (Japanese or Japanese-interested)
> Why is this? 

I'm not sure, but I do know that http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html has 6 links marked as Japanese (a separate section and a duplicate among the wikis) and 3 German (2 media links and one separate) with all of the rest being English. At least, AFAICT without clicking all the links.
So from that page, it would appear to be the second-most used language for D sites, after English. I'm not sure how representative it is, of course.

(Also, I believe the topic of Japanese script has come up at least once before in these newsgroups)