On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 02:41:16 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Mayuresh Kathe via
Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
Okay, if that is the case, I'll dive into Mr. Alexandrescu's
book as soon as
I get my copy.
BTW, how come all of you address him as Andrei?
Heh -- possibly you haven't interacted on international
technical
mailing lists like this. For us (you and me) in India we are
used to
employ/expect such honorifics, and in fact it would be
considered
somewhat disrespectful if we didn't, but in my early days
interacting
with people from "western" countries on the net, I was actually
discouraged from using "Mr" because it made people feel "old"!
:-)
FWIW while we're talking honorifics, he's *Dr* Alexandrescu as
in Ph D
doc. :-) [I'm one too, but you won't find me having mentioned it
anywhere earlier! :-) That's informal.]
Re Andrei's book versus Ali's, the latter is a more starting
from the
basics approach whereas Andrei's book is more targeted at people
coming from other languages. (This is a judgment I read
somewhere --
perhaps on this forum? -- and which I agree with, sorta.)
yes, you are totally right. Ali's book is aiming at teaching D
language to complete beginners where Andrei's book is aiming at
teaching D language to people who are already programmers.
