• Matthew Wilson (5/5) Mar 29 2003 I don't mean to be precious, but would the introduction of a separate
• J C Calvarese (19/27) Mar 29 2003 From my perspective, the vast majority of the posts seem to be on-topic...
• Ilya Minkov (3/3) Apr 09 2003 J C Calvarese wrote:

"Matthew Wilson" <dmd synesis.com.au> writes:

I don't mean to be precious, but would the introduction of a separate
discussion group be welcomed? I find that there are a lot of new posts
which, although I'm sure they're interesting, are not germane to D itself,
and therefore would be best placed in an ancillary space.

Matthew

J C Calvarese <jcc-47 excite.com> writes:

Matthew Wilson wrote:
 I don't mean to be precious, but would the introduction of a separate
 discussion group be welcomed? I find that there are a lot of new posts
 which, although I'm sure they're interesting, are not germane to D itself,
 and therefore would be best placed in an ancillary space.
 
 Matthew
 
 

 From my perspective, the vast majority of the posts seem to be on-topic 
to D: either asking how to do something in D or suggesting how something 
should be done in D.  A few posts stray into the region of general 
language design (links to other languages mostly), but since D is still 
being designed that doesn't seem inappropriate.  I can usually tell from 
a quick glance at the subject line whether the contents are going to be 
interesting to me.

This group seems to have a wide variety of participants.  Most of the 
posts seem to fall into two categories:  Design and Use.  I'd guess 90% 
of the messages relate to design.  10% relate to use.

I've found most of the language design discussions to be mostly over my 
head, but I can tell they deal with important issues.  Personally, I'm 
more interested in the "using D" messages because I'm inexperienced with 
the C/C++ languages and I'd rather skip learning them and go directly to 
using D.  It's been a pretty steep learning curve, but I've made some 
progress.  As far as I can tell, D would be as good of a first language 
as anything once there's a tutorial available.

Justin

Ilya Minkov <midiclub 8ung.at> writes:

J C Calvarese wrote:
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I agree fully!!!