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NeHe tutorials ported to D
Posted by: Kazade at August 20, 2007 1:10:54 PM

D is an up and coming language that aims to take the power of C++ and make it better. From the D site:

Its [D's] focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python.

More information can be found here and here. Although immature, its ability to link to C means it can link to many existing libraries including OpenGL and SDL...

Olli Aalto has been busy porting the majority of the original NeHe lessons to D and SDL!!! His ports and tutorials can be found on his blog. Definitely worth a look!!!


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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message anewdev     Member since: 9/2/2007  From: Sato, IL
 Posted - 9/3/2007 1:55:14 AM
No bad tutorials, Thanks for this info.

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message anewdev     Member since: 9/2/2007  From: Sato, IL
 Posted - 9/3/2007 2:02:20 AM
No bad tutorials, Thanks for this info.

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message V-man     Member since: 3/2/2002  From: Montreal, Quebec
 Posted - 9/27/2007 7:12:12 PM
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/*
* Finally, we can compute our factorials. Notice that we don't need to
* specify the type of our constants explicitly: the compiler is smart enough
* to fill in the blank for us, since it already knows the type of the
* right-hand side of the assignment.
*/
const fact_7 = Factorial!(7);


I already hate this language just by reading that.

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Aldacron     Member since: 10/17/1999  From: Seoul, Seoul-tukpyolsi
 Posted - 10/3/2007 2:06:55 AM
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Original post by V-man
Quote:
/*
* Finally, we can compute our factorials. Notice that we don't need to
* specify the type of our constants explicitly: the compiler is smart enough
* to fill in the blank for us, since it already knows the type of the
* right-hand side of the assignment.
*/
const fact_7 = Factorial!(7);


I already hate this language just by reading that.


While auto type inference is supported by D, it is not a requirement. You can explicitly specify the types just as you can in C and C++ if you want. D's auto type inference is very useful for templates and other specific cases. It's done at compile-time, not runtime.



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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message DeadXorAlive     Member since: 7/24/2005  From: Utrecht, Utrecht
 Posted - 10/20/2007 10:55:55 AM
Nice to see so many of Nehe's tutorials ported to D.

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Original post by V-man
Quote:
/*
* Finally, we can compute our factorials. Notice that we don't need to
* specify the type of our constants explicitly: the compiler is smart enough
* to fill in the blank for us, since it already knows the type of the
* right-hand side of the assignment.
*/
const fact_7 = Factorial!(7);


I already hate this language just by reading that.


Really? Why?

It isn't a big deal to insert the type here, but when you can say 'auto i = ...' instead of 'vector<int>::iterator i == ...' it is quite helpful. And that's just one of the less verbose use cases. Besides, it helps to make code more generic. Anyway, YMMV I guess.



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