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The document introduces the D programming language, describing it as a systems programming language that supports static typing, native code generation, and fast compilation. It highlights D's support for multiple programming paradigms like imperative, object-oriented, functional, and concurrent programming. Examples are provided demonstrating features like RAII, generics, and concurrency. Compilers for D include the Digital Mars, GNU, and LDC compilers, with full source code available. D supports Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.

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The D Programming Language Presentation

The document introduces the D programming language, describing it as a systems programming language that supports static typing, native code generation, and fast compilation. It highlights D's support for multiple programming paradigms like imperative, object-oriented, functional, and concurrent programming. Examples are provided demonstrating features like RAII, generics, and concurrency. Compilers for D include the Digital Mars, GNU, and LDC compilers, with full source code available. D supports Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.

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The D Programming Language

by Walter Bright
Digital Mars

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
What is D?
● Systems and applications programming
language
– Native code generation
– Static typing
– Fast turnaround
● Born of decades of experience with industry
projects
● Multi-paradigm
Multiparadigm
● Imperative
● Metal
● Object-oriented
● RAII
● Functional
● Generic
● Generative
● Concurrent
Imperative Programming

import std.stdio;

void main(string[] args) {
  writeln("hello world");
  writefln("args.length = %s",
        args.length);
  foreach (arg; args)
    writefln("arg = '%s'", arg);
}
Metal Programming

int *_memset32(int *p,
               int value,
               size_t count) {
    asm   {
        mov     EDI,p           ;
        mov     EAX,value       ;
        mov     ECX,count       ;
        mov     EDX,EDI         ;
        rep                     ;
        stosd                   ;
        mov     EAX,EDX         ;
    }
}
Object Oriented

class Shape {
  abstract void Draw ();
}
 
class Square : Shape {
  this(int x, int y, int w) {
    xpos = x; ypos = y;
    width = w;
  }

  void Draw() {
    writefln("Drawing Square at (%s,%s), width %s\n",
      x, y, width);
  }

  private int x, y, width;
}
RAII
 struct Buffer {
   this(size_t s) {
     buf = malloc(s)[0 .. s];
   }
   this(this) {
     buf = buf.dup;
   }
   ~this() {
     free(buf.ptr);
   }
   void[] buf;
 }
Functional

pure sum_of_squares
 (immutable double[] a)
{
    auto sum = 0;
    foreach (i; a)
        sum += i * i;
    return sum;
}
Generic
size_t levenshteinDistance
  (alias equals = "a == b", Range1, Range2)
  (Range1 s, Range2 t)
  if (isForwardRange!(Range1) &&
      isForwardRange!(Range2))
{
  ...
}

* Works with arbitrary predicates


* Lightweight concepts in the form of template constraints
Generative

 struct A {
    int a;
    mixin(bitfields!(
        uint, "x",    2,
        int,  "y",    3,
        uint, "z",    2,
        bool, "flag", 1));
 }
 A obj;
 obj.x = 2;
 obj.z = obj.x;
Concurrent
import std.algorithm, std.concurrency, std.stdio;

void main() {
enum bufferSize = 1024 * 100;
auto tid = spawn(&fileWriter);
// Read loop
foreach (immutable(ubyte)[] buffer;
stdin.byChunk(bufferSize)) {
send(tid, buffer);
}
}

void fileWriter() {
// Write loop
for (;;) {
auto buffer = receiveOnly!(immutable(ubyte)[])();
tgt.write(buffer);
}
}

from The D Programming Language chapter 13


Compilers
● Digital Mars D compiler
– Based on the Digital Mars compiler suite
● Gnu D compiler
– Based on the gnu compiler collection
● LDC compiler
– Based on the LLVM compiler

Full source code available for all of them


Platform Support
● Windows
● Linux
● OS X

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