Walter Bright wrote: > On 7/4/2011 3:40 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On 2011-07-04 03:24, bearophile wrote: >>> Maybe older people equate free with "bad", but newer generations are >>> used to find good content for free on Internet. Is D designed for older >>> people, people used to C and C++, that hate JavaScript? >> >> There's a difference between free on the internet and a free book. > > Exactly. It may not make rational sense, but it's true. > > Free books are regarded today like free software was 20 years ago - it > must be crap.
This does not hold for technical documentation. For TDPL yes, but not for a programming language specification. This view is also losing ground for programming books. There are a quite a few high quality books distributed online for free, even with a paper publishing deal.
