Did anyone watch Shark Tank on TV this week? Captain Ice Cream was rejected by all of the sharks and sent packing because he wanted to sell a franchise that wasn't. One of the sharks said to him something along the lines of, "a franchise offering is a package deal for a product that is a well-oiled machine... all the kinks worked out". Or was it the Legal Grind, coffee shop lawyering, franchise that they said that to? Of the Legal Grind, the sharks said: so you've been doing this for umpteen years and haven't made any real money and now you want to offer a franchise?
Why a killing of trees for a manual that changes daily and can be on the internet? What is the point of TDPL? To make money? I don't see any value in a set of pages that are a manual for a constantly changing and unestablished computer programming language. Can't yaz save the trees and offer it for sale on the web to anyone who wants to pay for it? It's easy to setup a PayPal website (though I think D is far from that if ever). I don't see this thing selling in bookstores. A hard copy of an already obsolete specification? If it's just charitable contribution from long time afficionados, why not just .org and ask for contributions and not kill trees? "TDPL: we want money"? Msg me when it is "TDPL: the well-oiled machine". (Note I didn't say "the well-oiled MONEY machine).
