• Mahmoud Al Gammal (12/12) Apr 21 2004 I just heard about D a couple of days ago at osnews.com.
• J Anderson (10/23) Apr 21 2004 I think so. D is approaching 1.0 so it's almost complete :) . In
• Stephan Wienczny (2/18) Apr 21 2004 Maybe you could help us by writing a d code parser generator?
• Matthew (8/20) Apr 21 2004 Off the top of my head:

Mahmoud Al Gammal <Mahmoud_member pathlink.com> writes:

I just heard about D a couple of days ago at osnews.com.
I'm interested in learning it, and there's already an application
that I was going to start writing soon so I thought of implementing it
in D.

The program is a simple compiler for a subset of the Pascal language
(it's a college assignment actually). I'm not interested in adding a
GUI for it.

My question is, is D complete/stable enough such that I could use it
for this task without having problems that leave me in the middle
of nowhere (given that I already know C/C++ & Java very well)?

Thanks in advance...

Mahmoud

J Anderson <REMOVEanderson badmama.com.au> writes:

Mahmoud Al Gammal wrote:

I just heard about D a couple of days ago at osnews.com.
I'm interested in learning it, and there's already an application
that I was going to start writing soon so I thought of implementing it
in D.

The program is a simple compiler for a subset of the Pascal language
(it's a college assignment actually). I'm not interested in adding a
GUI for it.

My question is, is D complete/stable enough such that I could use it
for this task without having problems that leave me in the middle
of nowhere (given that I already know C/C++ & Java very well)?

Thanks in advance...

Mahmoud
  

I think so.  D is approaching 1.0 so it's almost complete :) .  In 
regard to libs, well you'll have to port any C libs that you can't find 
a D alternative for.  I mean D has lots of libs, but nothing on the 
scale of C++ or java.

Stability - I rarely find a D compiler bug (nowadays).

Your not using a GUI, that should make D a bit easier (most D GUI's are 
still in early development).

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

Stephan Wienczny <wienczny web.de> writes:

Mahmoud Al Gammal wrote:

 I just heard about D a couple of days ago at osnews.com.
 I'm interested in learning it, and there's already an application
 that I was going to start writing soon so I thought of implementing it
 in D.
 
 The program is a simple compiler for a subset of the Pascal language
 (it's a college assignment actually). I'm not interested in adding a
 GUI for it.
 
 My question is, is D complete/stable enough such that I could use it
 for this task without having problems that leave me in the middle
 of nowhere (given that I already know C/C++ & Java very well)?
 
 Thanks in advance...
 
 Mahmoud

Maybe you could help us by writing a d code parser generator?

"Matthew" <matthew.hat stlsoft.dot.org> writes:

Off the top of my head:

    Language: 85%
    Compiler: 75%
    Libraries: 50%

but all these are rapidly accelerating towards completion.

Want to contribute?

"Mahmoud Al Gammal" <Mahmoud_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
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 I just heard about D a couple of days ago at osnews.com.
 I'm interested in learning it, and there's already an application
 that I was going to start writing soon so I thought of implementing it
 in D.

 The program is a simple compiler for a subset of the Pascal language
 (it's a college assignment actually). I'm not interested in adding a
 GUI for it.

 My question is, is D complete/stable enough such that I could use it
 for this task without having problems that leave me in the middle
 of nowhere (given that I already know C/C++ & Java very well)?

 Thanks in advance...

 Mahmoud