Here's looking at you, kid

[Warwick via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 01:28:00 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 00:47:17 UTC, Warwick wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 12:28:44 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 11/18/2015 11:02 PM, Saurabh Das wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Generally a language reference is not good for learning a 
>>> language. -- Andrei
>>
>> IE. There's nothing on the D website that is "good for 
>> learning" D.
>>
>> There's an offsite tutorial aimed at "absolute begginers".
>>
>> ****ing great set of options aint it.
>
> Ali's book is not a tutorial or aimed at absolute beginners, 
> it's /the/ material for learning D and in my opinion a great 
> reference book.

It says on the website and I quote... "a great starting point for 
absolute beginners"

But the fundamental problem and what everyone seems to be 
refusing to acknowledge is that in spite of what *you think 
people should be doing* many visitors are ending up using 
language reference to learn D.

Or they use that reference to get their first impressions.

It's like going to a restaurant and being given the recipes 
instead of the menu.

But keep burying you heads in the ground.