So I got "The D Programming Language" (and: threaded .xz compression)

[Juergen Lock]

(that's this book:

	http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321635361/modecdesi-20

Author's homepage:

	http://erdani.com/

) ...and finally played with the language a bit.  I've posted
some notes about getting dmd 2.048 running on FreeBSD (that's the
D 2.0 compiler + runtime + phobos libs), debugging with gdb head and
Doug Rabson's D-aware debugger ngdb [1], and my first (useful) hack,
a threaded .xz compressor, here:

	http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=117243

(more links in there; also read the followups...)

[1] ngdb announce message:

	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/011071.html

 Cheeers,
	Juergen