"To the best of my knowledge, D offers an unprecedentedly adroit integration of several powerful programming paradigms: imperative, object-oriented, functional, and meta." --From the Foreword by Walter Bright "This is a book by a skilled author describing an interesting programming language. I'm sure you'll find the read rewarding." --From the Foreword by Scott Meyers D is a programming language built to help programmers address the challenges of modern software development. It does so by fostering modules interconnected through precise interfaces, a federation of tightly integrated programming paradigms, language-enforced thread isolation, modular type safety, an efficient memory model, and more. The D Programming Language is an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to D. Reflecting the author's signature style, the writing is casual and conversational, but never at the expense of focus and pre-cision. It covers all aspects of the language (such as expressions, statements, types, functions, contracts, and modules), but it is much more than an enumeration of features. Inside the book you will find * In-depth explanations, with idiomatic examples, for all language features * How feature groups support major programming paradigms * Rationale and best-use advice for each major feature * Discussion of cross-cutting issues, such as error handling, contract programming, and concurrency * Tables, figures, and "cheat sheets" that serve as a handy quick reference for day-to-day problem solving with D Written for the working programmer, The D Programming Language not only introduces the D language--it presents a compendium of good practices and idioms to help both your coding with D and your coding in general.

Andrei Alexandrescu

世界頂尖的C++專傢，2001年撰寫瞭經典名著《C++設計新思維》（Modern C++ Design），曾榮獲2001年最佳C++圖書稱號，書中所開發的Loki已經成為最負盛名的C++程序庫之一。他被認為是新一代C++的代錶人物，因為對Template技術的精湛運用，震撼瞭整個C++社群，開闢瞭C++編程領域的“Modern C++”新時代。他還與Herb Sutter閤著瞭《C++編程規範》（C++ Coding Standards）。他花瞭8年的時間攻讀機器學習方麵的博士學位，專門研究部分自然語言處理結構。自2006年開始，他與D語言的最初設計者及實現者Walter Bright緊密閤作，設計和實現D語言及其標準庫，他是D語言很多特性的設計者，也是大多數D語言標準庫的作者。Andrei Alexandrescu在工業界和學術界都有很高的聲譽。現為Facebook研究員。