Learn to Tango with D

Chapter 2. D Fundamentals

A movie director once made the observation that Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez both resemble their father, Martin Sheen, but look nothing like each other. Something similar might be said of programming languages that belong to the C family. They all share certain features of C, but beyond that, they have several differences. For the most part, the differences are to be found in expanded features, such as inherent support for object-oriented or generic programming, automatic memory management, or features intended to make programs more secure and robust. But at the core of each of these languages is a set of features that vary little from one language to the next. D, too, follows this pattern, but does so in a way that ...