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The D programming language

2007; Belltown Media; Volume: 2007; Issue: 155 Linguagem: Inglês

1938-3827

Ameer Armaly,

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

During the past few decades, programming languages have come a long way. In comparison to the dawn of UNIX and C, when compiled languages were just getting their start, today's world is full of languages with all sorts of goals and features. In this article, I discuss one such language, D from Digital Mars. D is a natively compiled, statically typed, multiparadigm C-like language. Its aim is to simplify development of any type of application—from kernels to games—by combining the performance and flexibility of C with the productivity-boosting factors of languages, such as Ruby and Python. It originally was conceived by Walter Bright, the man who wrote the first ANSI C++ compiler for DOS. The reference compiler is freely downloadable for both Windows and Linux, and the front end is licensed under a dual GPL and Artistic license.