On 2014-12-17, 2:41 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 10:33:34 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
when i started to learn D, i found and read Andrei's book, Ali's book
and Philippe's "template tutorial". and i never complained that phobos
reference documentation is "hostile to beginners" -- 'cause it's NOT
for beginners. you are expected to learn the language before reading
reference dox
I wonder how much of a loss it would be to Andrei to publish TDPL for
free on dlang.org and link it from a front page as newcomer starting
point. I don't know if there are still many people who buy it though.
I bought my copy just under 1 year ago (2 copies really, print + kindle).