The D Programming Language 1st Edition

by Andrei Alexandrescu (Author)

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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 Im sure youll 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 authors signature style the writing is casual and conversational but never at the expense of focus and precision 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 findIn-depth explanations with idiomatic examples for all language featuresHow feature groups support major programming paradigmsRationale and best-use advice for each major featureDiscussion of cross-cutting issues such as error handling contract programming and concurrencyTables figures and cheat sheets that serve as a handy quick reference for day-to-day problem solving with DWritten 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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“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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (June 2, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321635361
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321635365
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.69 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Bruce Fowler

The D Programming Language

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2011

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"The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu is a
thorough and well written description of this relatively new,
well-designed and powerful software development paradigm.
The book explains complex language features in a clear and
concise manner and builds understanding of the language
starting from the basic concepts and building up to rather
advanced topics. It is packed with examples and has quite
a few motivational discussions justifying why certain design
decisions were made in creating the language.

The writing is precise for the most part, as one would hope to
find in a definitive work. But it is laced with allegories and
humor that both clarify the content and make it a lighter read
than might be expected. As you can tell, I liked the book.
I came away with a good understanding of the intentions
and capabilities of the "D" language, although I am sure it
will take another pass through the book and a few hands-on
programming projects for me to really feel comfortable with it.
During that learning phase this book will never be far from
my hand.

In the interest of completeness, let me list a few things that
this book is not. It is not a text on how to write programs.
The examples are laser-focused on the language feature being
described, and many of the descriptions start a step or two
above "beginner" level and are somewhat terse. One would do
better with this book coming from a solid software development
background and familiarity with the concepts and terminology
of, for example, object-oriented programming.

Curiously, only a little more than half a year off the
presses, there are aspects of the book that are out of sync
with the existing "D" infrastructure. The canonical "Hello,
World!" program will not compile without changes that align it
with the current run-time support libraries. Also, I have run
across a couple of keywords that don't work quite as described
or are not recognized at all by the current compilers. In this
regard, my guess is that the book is a description of how
"D" should be, and the implementation is trying to catch up.
This is certainly not a fatal flaw and perhaps something to be
expected in a dynamic situation, but try out a feature before
you commit large amounts of effort to it.

My only other caveat is that this first edition is somewhat
lacking as a reference manual. The index needs some work;
entries could at least highlight which of a half-dozen page
references is the primary one. At one point I wanted to
clarify use of the "binary '!'" operator. It took me quite a
while to find it on page 234 under "Parameterized Classes and
Interfaces." Some of the "Summary and Reference" sections at
the end of chapters contain useful tables of statement types
or operator precedence, but there is no "List of Tables" to
guide one to the best reference. I'm sure the next edition
will be much improved as a language reference, in the meanwhile
my copy is full of pencil notes and bookmarks.

Note that I have just started coding in "D" and my comments
should be interpreted in that light. I hope that you have
found this review useful.

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Great Style & Powerful Language

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014

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The author has an interesting and engaging style of writing, with a focus on the underlying philosophies and trade-offs made in the design of the language. This sets it apart from books like Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, which focus more on what the language can do and how it should be used than why it does things a certain way.

While some previous programming previous is assumed, familiarity with the specifics of given paradigms is not. The justification behind concepts such as contract programming is stated, before discussing D's implementation. The author assumes no familiarity with D's syntax, making this book an excellent way to learn the language.

One of the best features of this book is its bibliography. Throughout the text citations are provided for certain facts or arguments, which provide more depth or context. These also serve to strengthen the implicit argument that D is a well-thought out and designed language.

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Great book - great programming language

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2015

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This is a great introduction to D if you already know another programming language. D looks like the kind of language I have been looking for all those years I have worked with Java. Low level features and control, but with lots of high level abstractions too. Every time a design choice had to be made, D seem to have made a good default decision - while often giving you the option to do something else too. I can't wait to start programming in D !

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Vernon A. Miller

Caution: A small weirdness with the Kindle edition

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014

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Overall, I like this book very much, and I'll post a more comprehensive review in another note. BUT, I wanted to point out something specific that I am seeing in the Kindle edition, using the PC-based reader under Windows 7.

When a code example is given, it shows up as inline text, with a hyperlink above that says "Click here to view code image". At first, I was having trouble understanding the code in the inline text - it had gaps in it, as if extra spaces were inserted. For instance, here's one example from section 4.1.7:

double[] a, b, c;
double d;
...
a[] = ( b[] (c[] 4)) c[] d;

The last line doesn't make any sense.

What I realized is that none of the punctuation symbols that represent operators were being displayed! The last line should show as:

a[] = -( b[] * (c[] + 4)) + c[] * d;

It shows correctly if I click on the "Click here to view code image" link, and it also has the correct characters if you copy the line and, for example, paste it into Notepad. So the problem is clearly not that the characters are missing, it's that they are not being displayed for some reason.

This is not isolated to one place, it happens in pretty much every code example that has any operator characters in it.

So if you are trying to understand a code example, the "Click here to view code image" link might be your friend :-)

Thanks.

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Aleksey Vitebskiy

A fascinating read

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2013

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This book is a masterpiece. You can really tell it's written by somebody who is absolutely passionate about the language and who's committed to creating as "perfect" of a programming language as possible, at least in his own view. I do wish there was more discussion about the Phobos library, but that would have made the book obsolete sooner. As it sits, the book will stand the test of time. Andrei's voice it precise, yet easy going, allowing you to absorb difficult and boring topics with ease. The fact that English is his second language does come through, but I don't think it takes anything away from the quality of the book.

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X. Xu

This is the best book on D

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015

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This is the best book on D. Andrei does a fantastic job telling not only what D is, but more importantly, the reasoning behind lots of trade offs. To really enjoy this book, it's better if the reader understand some other programming languages already and in general is curious of various different programming paradigms. After all, D is a multiple paradigm language.

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M C

Andrei's introduction gets you excited about programming.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2017

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The D programming language might have slipped under a lot of people's radars. It may even be that the language itself out-dates many peoples' radars and so did not appear as a blip at all. Yet D has been quietly picking up speed in the last 3 years since I first picked up this book. I knew of Andrei Alexandrescu from a few C++ books I picked up to try and learn the language during my undergraduate degree and I have to say, C++ has always been my most dreaded language to work with because it's such a behemoth. I was fine with C, and Java was fun at the time, but C++ was something I used out of necessity, but received no joy in doing so.

When I began my PhD I started scripting some models in python, and quickly realised that while this would do for prototyping, in terms of speed, I would need to pick something a little faster and more manageable for my needs. After trying out Java again I decided to take another look at D which I had come across a couple of years earlier. As I was the only developer on my projects for my PhD, I didn't need to worry much about software dependencies, and figured if I wanted a compiled, garbage collected language, I should give D a try. By this time, a lot of the older issues had been settled with D2, deciding on a standard library to use, as well as providing 3 compilers to choose from: DMD, LDC (LLVM) and GDC (GNU). After some browsing on the website and forums, and a little digging, I had decided that implementing my own projects in D would be a good test of how easy it was to pick up, and how enjoyable it was to work with during those stressful moments.

# Book review starts here

This book was my starting point, and along with the somewhat decent documentation on the dlang site, it has been my only reference point so far. Andrei is an excellent writer when it comes to getting you excited about programming. This isn't a book for the novice programmer, but for anyone with a little programming experience (enough to pick up the basics of a new language) this book is full to the brim with novel and exciting implementations of functions that surprise you with their simplicity and elegance when implemented in the D language. Andrei takes you from small examples through to implementing and reimplementing utility functions such as sorting algorithms in order to fully demonstrate the expressive power of D. It's both a really nice, gentle walk through a new language, as well as an excellent book for bookmarking reference tables for the different types in the language, as well as neat tricks you can do with templates that you might not have dreamt of before.

Explanations come with code and even diagrams in places, and the writing is always clear and precise. It's a comprehensive book considering its size, and will set you up for venturing into D for sure. It might be a little outdated in terms of running the examples in the book, given that D is constantly implementing new language features and deprecating old library functions for smarter, more elegant solutions. But the errata can be found at http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/ should you need help and the compiler isn't explicit enough to point you in the right direction.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Andrei is an excellent teacher for people wanting a refreshing introduction to a new language, and he succeeds in getting you excited about programming and trying out D. I hope he continues to update the book in the future.

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Markus

HIghly recommended for experienced programmers new to D, but could perhaps do with a refresh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2015

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This is a lively, fast-paced and enjoyable introduction to an interesting, practical and productive language.

The book is clearly aimed at experienced programmers wanting to learn D as a second or subsequent language. If that's you, I recommend it without hesitation. The book assumes you already know what types, variables and functions are, and goes straight into specifics about D. It also explains not only the choices that D has made, but why it made them and how to work with them. D draws strongly from C++ and C, and you'll find it easiest to learn D from this book if you've used those languages already. However, D also exploits a number of important ideas drawn from other strands, such as functional programming, so don't feel put off if your expertise lies elsewhere.

Although D itself would make a good choice of first language, this book is not a programming primer. Ali Cehreli's book is aimed squarely at that constituency, and you might do better there if you're a beginner.

The only reason I've given Dr Alexandrescu's book only four stars is that -- as you can see by visiting (...) and looking at the change logs -- D has come a long way since 2010. If the author could be persuaded to update his book and keep it to the same standard, I'd certainly award it five stars.

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Udo Klarhöfer

Tolles Buch

Reviewed in Germany on November 19, 2013

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Sehr gut und locker geschrieben, wenn auch mit einem Wortschatz, der meine Englischkenntnisse an vielen Stellen ziemlich fordert. Trotzdem blieb das Werk für mich gut verständlich und der Autor überzeugt immer wieder mit seinem sehr fundierten Wissen.
Die Programmiersprache D verdient Aufmerksamkeit, ihre Besonderheiten und viele Designentscheidungen die Sprache betreffend werden hervorragend erklärt.
Ich bin schon mehrfach auf die Sprache gestoßen, der Wunsch sich genauer mit ihr zu beschäftigen kam aber erst vor kurzem, als heise.de vermeldet hat, dass Facebook die ersten in D geschriebenen Module produktiv genommen hat. Diese wurden übrigens vom Autor des Buches, Andrei Alexandrescu, für Facebook erstellt.

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Roberto

Excellent

Reviewed in Italy on January 28, 2013

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Ottimo testo sia per comprendere il linguaggio D e iniziare ad usarlo, sia come testo "teorico" di linguaggi di programmazione. La lettura mette in luce soluzioni moderne (e non) a problemi presenti in linguaggi più comuni....per i quali la grande diffusione e la necessità di compatibilità impedisce di apportare le giuste correzioni.
Il linguaggio D parte "da zero" e credo arrivi ad un buon risultato.

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Hagar Dunor

Le livre indispensable à toute personne qui s'intéresse à D

Reviewed in France on June 24, 2012

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Ce livre est écrit par l'un des designers du langage. Andrei Alexandrescu est un expert du C++ qui est venu renforcer Walter Bright dans le redesign du langage D. D est aujourd'hui le meilleur candidat à la succession de C++, si on exclut C++ lui-même. C'est un langage multi paradigmes très puissant, qui est orienté performances. C'est une espèce de mix entre C++, Java et Python, matiné de concepts issus des langages fonctionnels. De par sa complexité, ce langage n'est pas destiné au programmeur débutant. Une expérience en C++ ou en Java est utile pour appréhender D.

Le livre est très bien écrit, comme toujours avec cet auteur, et nettement plus agréable à lire que la plupart des ouvrages de ce genre. Les exemples sont bien choisis et pertinents. L'auteur explique non seulement comment utiliser les nombreuses fonctionnalités du langage, mais leur raison d'être, qui n'est pas toujours explicite lors de la lecture de la spécification, ainsi que les choix d'implémentation.
Tout ceci fait que la compréhension du D passe par la lecture de cet ouvrage.

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