Foreword

How far things have come! I started D in 1999. The odds of any new programming language endeavor succeeding were minimal.

But here we are with the latest book on D, Learning D by Michael Parker.

The arc of programming languages I've learned follows a consistent pattern – my first Fortran code looked a lot like Basic. My first C code looked similar to Fortran. C++ code looked similar to C, and my early D code looked similar to C++. It takes some time to get used to a language before learning its own idiomatic style, and this is what it takes before the source code starts to shine.

After all, if your D code looks similar to C++, what's the point?

Learning D fills the need to get up-to-speed quickly by explaining how to write code in a way ...

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