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Overview
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This course explores three seemingly unimportant features of the programming language D that have become widely used and appreciated. The learning outcomes include understanding the utility of these features, their impact on community adoption, and their scalability to real-world large programs. The course teaches skills such as functional programming, generative programming, compile-time evaluation, and code injection using mixins. The teaching method involves discussing the features, their consequences, and providing examples for better comprehension. This course is intended for programmers interested in language design, advanced programming concepts, and exploring unconventional yet successful language features.
Syllabus
Intro
Motivation
Personal Story: Coming from C#
The Innocently Plausible
The Unexpected Emergent
Measurements
Consequences
Functional Factorial (yawn)
Functional Factorial, Fixed
Honest Factorial
WHAT DOES A PURE FUNCTION
Transitive State
User-defined types
Generative Programming
Embedded DSLS
Compile-Time Evaluation
Code injection with mixin
Example: bitfields in library
Compile-time regular expressions
Taught by
NDC Conferences