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The D Programming Language

The D Programming Language
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By: Andrei Alexandrescu (Author)  (Paperback - 2010)
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» Paperback: (460 pages)
» Publisher:  Addison-Wesley Professional (June 12, 2010)
» ISBN: 0321635361
» Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.0 x 1.2 inches
» Amazon.com Sales Rank: #568,566 in Books
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"To the best of my knowledge, D offers an unprecedentedly adroit integration of several powerful programming paradigms: imperative, object-oriented, functional, and meta."
-From the Foreword by Walter Bright

"This is a book by a skilled author describing an interesting programming language. I'm sure you'll find the read rewarding."
-From the Foreword by Scott Meyers

D is a programming language built to help programmers address the challenges of modern software development. It does so by fostering modules interconnected through precise interfaces, a federation of tightly integrated programming paradigms, language-enforced thread isolation, modular type safety, an efficient memory model, and more.

The D Programming Language is an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to D. Reflecting the author's signature style, the writing is casual and conversational, but never at the expense of focus and pre?cision. It covers all aspects of the language (such as expressions, statements, types, functions, contracts, and modules), but it is much more than an enumeration of features.

Inside the book you will find

  • In-depth explanations, with idiomatic examples, for all language features
  • How feature groups support major programming paradigms
  • Rationale and best-use advice for each major feature
  • Discussion of cross-cutting issues, such as error handling, contract programming, and concurrency
  • Tables, figures, and "cheat sheets" that serve as a handy quick reference for day-to-day problem solving with D

Written for the working programmer, The D Programming Language not only introduces the D language-it presents a compendium of good practices and idioms to help both your coding with D and your coding in general.



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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to D, June 25, 2010
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This book is one of the things D really needed to launch itself out of obscurity. It thoroughly explains the strengths of the language, why it is a practical language to learn and use, and it walks you through the more complex aspects of the language such as meta programming and concurrency/threading (which is often overlooked). As others have stated, it would be nice to have more real world examples - but then again, I never liked the books that have 5 out of 6 pages completely filled with code. This book is a good introduction to the rich toolset D provides - it's up to you to dig in and get experienced.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read Even For A Hardcore D User, June 22, 2010
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I've been using D regularly for about 2 years. When I heard about this book, I bought it more out of curiosity than anything. I was pleasantly surprised when this book revealed facets of D that I had not been aware of through two years of usage, library writing and forum surfing. Andrei's entertaining yet to-the-point style makes this a pleasant read, and he manages to cover both basic and advanced topics thoroughly yet succinctly.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Classic, August 1, 2010
This review is from: The D Programming Language (Paperback)
First, a little context. I've been around the D community for a few years, keep a blog about items of interest to D users, maintain an open source D project and, in 2007, coauthored "Learn to Tango with D". Through all of that, the majority of my experience was with D1. I was hesitant, even reluctant, to use version 2 of the language because, in some ways, it is a bit paradigm shift from the first version. Andrei's book has dispelled any doubts I had about moving forward with D2.

D2 melds several different programming paradigms into one whole. One of the most radical differences from existing C-family languages is the concept of 'ranges', which are intended as an improvement over, and replacement for, the more familiar 'iterators' of other languages. Before the book, while ranges were being implemented in the alpha versions of the D2 compiler, some people had trouble wrapping their heads around ranges. Here, Andrei explains them in a way that makes them easy to grok and... Read more
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