• BCS (15/15) Nov 20 2006 Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the
• Walter Bright (2/2) Nov 20 2006 Bill Venners (editor at www.artima.com) has been looking for an
• renox (10/10) Nov 21 2006 Congratulation, your paper is now in very good shape.
• BCS (8/22) Nov 21 2006 Thank you.
• Hasan Aljudy (9/31) Nov 21 2006 I think I just spotted a typo, at the top of page 3
• Bruno Medeiros (14/36) Nov 21 2006 I haven't looked much at the content, just at the overall structure, and...

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the 
history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider 
distribution.

Here it is as it stands now:

	http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf

It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings 
under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.

I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D 
should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?

I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them 
in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and 
would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly 
interested in filling in the history section.

you can email me at:

  shro8822  at uidaho .dot edu

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

Bill Venners (editor at www.artima.com) has been looking for an 
introduction to D article. This may be ideal.

renox <renaud.hebert free.fr> writes:

Congratulation, your paper is now in very good shape.

While I haven't been able to find content error, a remark on the shape: there
are
quite a few examples which are not on the same page than the text which refers
to
them, and worse the examples appears after the text which refers to them.

This happens often with text generated by LateX (checking in the PDF properties,
yup this was generated from LateX).

Personnaly I dislike this way of putting examples after their reference, of
course
it's a personnal taste.

Regards,
RenoX

BCS <BCS pathilink.com> writes:

renox wrote:
 Congratulation, your paper is now in very good shape.
 
 While I haven't been able to find content error, a remark on the shape: there
are
 quite a few examples which are not on the same page than the text which refers
to
 them, and worse the examples appears after the text which refers to them.
 
 This happens often with text generated by LateX (checking in the PDF
properties,
 yup this was generated from LateX).
 
 Personnaly I dislike this way of putting examples after their reference, of
course
 it's a personnal taste.
 
 Regards,
 RenoX


Thank you.


Yah, I had a lot of fun getting the version I tuned in to look good (the 
section order depended more on how the layout worked than anything). 
Personally, I like the example to follow the text, but only if they are 
right after the text and that seems to be hard to get.

BTW, what is your full name, I'd like to put it in the acknowledgments 
section if that is all right with you.

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

I think I just spotted a typo, at the top of page 3

<quote>
This aids in producing reliable
code by allowing for aspects of programs to be specified in once places 
and, from that specification,
implemented in several places.
</quote>

Shouldn't it be "specified in one place", not "once places"?

BCS wrote:
 Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the 
 history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider 
 distribution.
 
 Here it is as it stands now:
 
     http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf
 
 It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings 
 under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.
 
 I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D 
 should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?
 
 I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them 
 in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and 
 would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly 
 interested in filling in the history section.
 
 you can email me at:
 
  shro8822  at uidaho .dot edu

Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:

BCS wrote:
 Well now that I have turned in my CS term paper (see A "paper on the 
 history of D (draft)") I'm now looking to rework it for a wider 
 distribution.
 
 Here it is as it stands now:
 
     http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/term_007.pdf
 
 It has a lot of blank areas in it right now. A number of the headings 
 under Miscellaneous should be sections on there own.
 
 I'm looking for feedback on what should be in there. What parts of D 
 should be covered? Do I say to much about some things?
 
 I'd be willing to insert whole sections from contributers and add them 
 in as co-authors. Little bits and peaces would also be welcome (and 
 would get a citation in the acknowledgments section). I'm particularly 
 interested in filling in the history section.
 
 you can email me at:
 
  shro8822  at uidaho .dot edu


I haven't looked much at the content, just at the overall structure, and 
  the order(if it matters at all?) seems a bit off, you put very 
advanced features soon (templates, mixins, variadic templates,etc.), and 
more basic ones later (contracts, and the whole miscelleanous: foreach, 
op overload, unicode, etc.)

If you're interested in a sugestion for order, grouping and/or 
enumeration of D features, perhaps this school D presentation of mine ( 
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~bdom/dee/D_apr-v2b.ppt ) is of interest. It's in 
portuguese but most of the terms and examples are in english so maybe 
it's still of use.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D