Doing unit conversion prog, touching up Makefile

d/prog-lang-book/src/height_conversions.d

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+/*
+   Compute heights in centimeters for a range of heights
+   expressed in feet and inches
+ */
+import std.stdio;
+
+void main() {
+    // Values unlikely to change soon
+    immutable inchesPerFoot = 12;
+    immutable cmPerInch = 2.54;
+
+    // Loop'n write
+    foreach (feet; 5 .. 7) {
+        foreach (inches; 0 .. inchesPerFoot) {
+            writeln(feet, "'", inches, "''\t",
+                (feet * inchesPerFoot + inches) * cmPerInch);
+        }
+    }
+}